[389-users] Can i use Same Certificate for all my ldap server

Petr Spacek pspacek at redhat.com
Wed Apr 17 07:20:09 UTC 2013


On 16.4.2013 23:10, Kyle Flavin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> expert alert wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>> I am planning to deploy all my ldap server by puppet.
>>> so I am wondering, Can i use Same Server Certificate and CA certificate
>>> (Directory server) for all my server ???
>>>
>>> if yes, then under which directory shall i place those certificate ??

Although it is technically possible, it is not recommended.

All servers will share the same private key, so the chance that the key will 
be compromised is bigger - you need to transfer the key securely from one 
server to another etc.

Could you explain your use case? I'm curious :-)

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Petr Spacek



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