On 12/15/2015 08:54 AM, Jan Cholasta wrote: > Hi, > > recently I and David discussed the direction of installers with regard to > requesting certificates. Currently there are four (!) different ways of > requesting certificates in the installer [1][2][3][4]. We would like to reduce > it to one. > > Since all the certificates are tracked by certmonger and certmonger already > knows how to request certificates from Dogtag (and other CAs), we believe that > all certificates should be requested using certmonger. > > Taking our meditation further, we thought "Why not use certmonger for the > cert-request command as well?" What is the benefit, do you ask? > > a) single code path for requesting certificates (seriously, the current state > is ridiculous) > > b) use any CA supported by certmonger as the IPA CA (i.e. Let's Encrypt [5], > once certmonger gains support for it) > > c) automate external CA install, using any CA supported by certmonger [6] > > d) support multiple different CAs at once (generalization of the Sub-CA > feature) > > e) uniform configuration on clients (configure once, use forever, even for > CA-less) > > The idea is to store configuration for the different CAs in LDAP and have > cert-request redirect requests to a proper CA helper according to that > configuration. This would require a new certmonger D-Bus method to call a CA > helper without associated certificate storage, but that should be rather easy > to add. In return, it would be possible to do all of the above. > > Note that this should not conflict with tighter integration with Dogtag > (profiles, ACLs, etc.). > > Comments are welcome. > > Honza > > [1] > <https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/tree/ipapython/certmonger.py#n305> > [2] > <https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/tree/ipaserver/install/certs.py#n329> > > [3] > <https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/tree/ipaserver/install/certs.py#n355> > > [4] > <https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/tree/ipaserver/install/cainstance.py#n878> > > [5] <https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5431> > [6] <https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5317>
Interesting idea! I would be definitely interested to hear what Fraser, Rob or Simo thinks here. -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-devel mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel Contribute to FreeIPA: http://www.freeipa.org/page/Contribute/Code
