[Freeipa-users] ipa-getcert and SELinux

[Martin Kosek]

On 03/07/2016 10:03 PM, Thomas Raehalme wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have setup certificates for Puppet as described here:
> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Using_IPA's_CA_for_Puppet
> 
> Unfortunately SELinux is giving me hard time when invoking "ipa-getcert
> request" to generate the private/public key for the Puppet agent
> (permission denied when trying to write the key pair to
> /var/lib/puppet/ssl).
> 
> Disabling SELinux temporarily solves the issue, but the same problem
> reappears when renewing the certificate (ipa-getcert reports status
> NEED_CERTSAVE_PERMS for the request).
> 
> What would be the proper way to enable the necessary permissions on SELinux?
> 
> Best regards,
> Thomas

Hi Thomas,

Just for the record, I moved the page to
http://www.freeipa.org/page/Howto/Using_IPA%27s_CA_for_Puppet
and linked it from
http://www.freeipa.org/page/HowTos#Certificates

I see there was a similar page in the past, now claimed as rather outdated:
http://jcape.name/2012/01/16/using-the-freeipa-pki-with-puppet/