[Freeipa-users] updating certificates

[Rob Crittenden]

jcnt at use.startmail.com wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> About a year ago I installed my freeipa server with certificates from
> startssl using command line options --dirsrv-cert-file --http-cert-file
> etc.
> The certificate is about to expire, what is the proper way to update it
> in all places?

It depends on whether you kept the original CSR or not. If you kept the 
original CSR and are just renewing the certificate(s) then when you get 
the new one, use certutil to add the updated cert to the appropriate NSS 
database like:

# certutil -A -n Server-Cert -d /etc/httpd/alias -t u,u,u -a -i 
/path/to/new.crt

If you need to generate a new CSR then you can use 
ipa-server-certinstall to install the updated key and crt files.

In either case probably worth backing up /etc/httpd/alias/*.db and 
/etc/dirsrv/slapd-INSTANCE/*.db.

rob