Hi all,
For a project we want to use FreeIPA with external CA.
We are using v4.6.6 on centos7.8.
The guides instruct to use command ”ipa-server-install --external-ca”, get the CSR and run the install command again using the signed certificate.
Issue 1: key length is 2048
Fix: Found that this can be changed in file
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/cainstance.py
Add under:
# CA key algorithm
# config.set("CA", "pki_ca_signing_key_size", 4096)
Issue 2: Subject DN
The subject on the certificate request is
“CN=Certificate Authority,O=[realm]”
but the root-ca requires us to have in the format:
CN=FREEIPA 2020,serialNumber=XxXx,O=xxx,C=XX
Q: Is it possible to install the FreeIPA server using the external root-ca and a signed certificate from the beginning? (csr created outside ipa-server-install command)
Q: Is it possible to alter the information on the certificate request to match the root-ca’s requirements?
Thanks,
Anestis