#4489 RHEL 7 IPA set-up installer fails with pk12 cert issues (usability fix)
Closed: Fixed None Opened 9 years ago by dpal.

Ticket was cloned from Red Hat Bugzilla (product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7): Bug 1129561

IPA can be installed as a Sub CA. In this case we look into a file provided to us that contains the cert from the root CA. In practice the file might conatin more than one cert, i.e. a cert chain. In this case we error our as we expect only one cert and do not know which one should be used. This ticket suggests that instead of just failing and saying that there are more than one cert in the file we should say something like:

There are more than one certificate detected.
Subject names:
foo
bar
baz
rerun the installation adding an additional argument
--some-arg-to-choose-the-cert = <subject name from the list above>

The user will rerun the command choosing the exact cert and would move on. This would be much more usable and would avoid the confusion.


Original Bugzilla was closed as duplicate.

master:

  • 60ecba7 Add NSSDatabase.import_files method for importing files in various formats
  • 3aa0731 External CA installer options usability fixes
  • 8808388 CA-less installer options usability fixes
  • 3cde7e9 Allow choosing CA-less server certificates by name
  • 83cbfa8 Do stricter validation of CA certificates

ipa-4-1:

  • b93bdb7 Add NSSDatabase.import_files method for importing files in various formats
  • 6136a3e External CA installer options usability fixes
  • a29ee45 CA-less installer options usability fixes
  • 01623f7 Allow choosing CA-less server certificates by name
  • 0c4d7da Do stricter validation of CA certificates

Metadata Update from @dpal:
- Issue assigned to jcholast
- Issue set to the milestone: FreeIPA 4.1

7 years ago

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