Hi,
I am working on the following issues and I have questions re. 3rd party
certificates:
- https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4785 ipa-server-certinstall
tracks the 3rd party cert it installs with certmonger
- https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4786 ipa-server-certinstall
does not accept certs signed by 3rd party CAs
First I would like to validate that my scenario is the correct one:
FreeIPA installed with an embedded CA. The customer now wants to use a
different certificate for httpd and dirsrv, signed by a 3rd party CA.
The steps to achieve this are:
1. run "ipa-cacert-manage install -t C,, <CAcert file>" to install the
3rd party CA certificate. This step puts the CA certificate in the LDAP
entry cn=certificates,cn=ipa,cn=etc,dc=...
2. run "ipa-certupdate" to retrieve the CA cert from LDAP and put it
into /etc/ipa/nssdb /etc/dirsrv/sldapd-xxx and /etc/httpd/alias
Note that this command does not put the CA cert into
/etc/pki/pki-tomcat/alias, is this expected? I had to perform this
manually (otherwise tomcat won't restart later).
3. run "ipa-server-certinstall -d -w key.pem cert.pem"
This commands should stop tracking the previous cert, install the new
one in /etc/dirsrv/slapd-xx (if -d is used) and /etc/httpd/alias (if -w
is used), and track the new one only if signed by IPA CA. It also
updates the attribute nssslpersonalityssl of the entry
cn=rsa,cn=encryption,cn=config to contain the new cert nickname (for the
dirsrv) and sets NSSNickname in /etc/httpd/conf.d/nss.conf (for httpd).
After those steps, I noticed that
- the entries
krbprincipalname=HTTP/hostname@dom,cn=services,cn=accounts,dc=domain...
and
krbprincipalname=ldap/hostname@dom,cn=services,cn=accounts,dc=domain...
are not updated: their attribute userCertificate still contains the old
certificate.
Did I miss a manual step? Is it an issue?
- the new certificate nickname is not "Server-Cert" any more but rather
the full subject (even if --cert-name was supplied to
ipa-server-certinstall).
Can this cause issues?
Thanks for any input,
Flo.
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