[Freeipa-users] Using 3rd party certificates for HTTP/LDAP

[Martin Kosek]

On 01/15/2016 05:34 PM, Peter Pakos wrote:
> On 15/01/2016 15:55, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>> I've re-run ipa-certupdate in verbose mode and I could see that it
>>> removes all certificates in different databases (/etc/httpd/alias,
>>> /etc/pki/nssdb, /etc/pki/pki-tomcat/alias) and then re-adds them (apart
>>> from /etc/pki/pki-tomcat/alias).
>>
>> Yup, looks like this part is missing. Perhaps the assumption was that
>> the CA would be authoritative in this regard.
> 
> Is this a bug? Should this be logged somewhere so it can be looked into?
> 
>> Updating the CA certs you'd want to add them to LDAP, replacing the
>> older ones, and then ipa-certupdate will do the rest. You'd need to run
>> this on all clients and servers.
> 
> This sounds like a lot of manual work will be involved when it comes to renewal.
> 
> And without clear and up-to-date information and possibly step-by-step
> instructions the effort needed to get this sorted is doubled.
> 
> Please note that it took us many hours to get a 3rd party SSL certificate
> installed (you would think a very simple task). And the truth is that without
> this mailing list and #freeipa channel we would still be stuck trying to get to
> the bottom of this.
> 

CCing Honza. Do we have all the respective tickets filed, so that we can
improve and speed up the user experience?