[Freeipa-users] Using our IPA CA as a trusted CA to sign ssl certificates

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Thu Jun 2 21:31:05 UTC 2016


Bret Wortman wrote:
> Is it possible to use our freeipa CA as a trusted CA to sign our
> internal SSL certificates? Our system runs on a private network and so
> using the usual trusted sources isn't an option. We've been using
> self-signed, but that adds some additional complications and we thought
> this might be a good solution.
>
> Is it possible, and, since most online guides defer to "submit the CSR
> to Verisign" or whomever, how would you go about producing one in this way?

Not sure I understand the question. The IPA CA is also self-signed. For 
enrolled systems though at least the CA is pre-distributed so maybe that 
will help.

rob




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