[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA with third-party wildcard certificate

[Martin Kosek]

FreeIPA allows running with CA-less mode, where there is no CA and FreeIPA
simply users the offered CA/LDAP certificates:

http://www.freeipa.org/page/PKI#Blending_in_PKI_infrastructure

Some information is also here:
http://www.freeipa.org/images/b/b3/FreeIPA33-blending-in-a-certificate-infrastructure.pdf
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Linux_Domain_Identity_Authentication_and_Policy_Guide/install-ca-options.html

Martin

On 09/29/2015 02:16 PM, Brian Mathis wrote:
> No.  FreeIPA requires a *CA* certificate, which is a cert that has the
> ability to sign other certs.  Unless you're in a large company with an
> expensive agreement in place with GoDaddy, that is not a permission they
> grant to regular certs.  A wildcard cert is only allowed to be used on
> simple things like a web site, and does not have the ability to sign other
> certs.
> 
> 
> ~ Brian Mathis
> @orev
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 5:35 AM, Srdjan Dutina <sdutina at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm testing FreeIPA 4.1.0 on Centos 7 (1503).
>> I have a *wildcard *certificate for my domain issued by GoDaddy.
>> Could I use it with FreeIPA primary and replica servers instead of
>> self-signed certificate?
>> If yes, how could I replace the self-signed certificate in existing two
>> servers installation?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Srdjan.
>>
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