[Pki-users] Questions on customizing certificate profiles

[Arshad Noor]

Hi,

I thought I used to know the Certificate Server, but it appears
that so much has changed that I feel like I'm starting over again.
Hopefully, I'm the one who's making mistakes and that DogTag is
really not different from RHCS.

In trying to install DogTag on Fedora 11 (x86_64), I'm unable to
customize the initial certificates created by the installation
process.  For example, here is what I'm doing:

1) Run "yum install pki-ca".
2) Run "pkicreate" with appropriate parameters.
3) Modify the caCACert.cfg, caServerCert.cfg and all caInternal*.cfg
    files to do the following:

	- Add "default.params.signingAlg=SHA256withRSA" to the files;
	- Remove digitalSignature and nonRepudiation for CA cert;
	- Remove digitalSignature, nonRepudiation, dataEncipherment
		for Server cert;
	- Change default validity periods, etc.

Yet, none of the certificates generated by the installation process
have these changes in them.

I've tried stopping "pki-cad", copying the modified *.cfg files to
the appropriate "<instance>/profiles/ca" directory and restarting
pki-cad in case the service needed to see the modified files at
startup - but to no avail.

I've tried modifying the *.profile files in the /etc/<instance>
directory, but to no avail.

How does one customize the certificates before the self-signed cert
is generated?

I'm going through the PDF documentation for RHCS 8.0 and assuming
that the instructions there apply to DogTag too.  The version number
of pki-ca I'm picking up is 1.3.2 even though I've specified the 1.2.0
repository.

Thanks.

Arshad Noor
StrongAuth, Inc.