[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 351 configurable certificate subjects

[Rob Crittenden]

Let the user, upon installation, set the certificate subject base for 
the dogtag CA. Certificate requests will automatically be given this 
subject base, regardless of what is in the CSR.

The selfsign plugin does not currently support this dynamic name 
re-assignment and will reject any incoming requests that don't conform 
to the subject base.

The certificate subject base is stored in cn=ipaconfig but it does NOT 
dynamically update the configuration, for dogtag at least. The file 
/var/lib/pki-ca/profiles/ca/caIPAserviceCert.cfg would need to be 
updated and pki-cad restarted.

For example:
# ipa-server-install --ca --subject="O=Example"

If the installed CA is dogtag then the following will happen:

1. request for CN=test.example.com will issue CN=test.example.com, O=Example
2. request for CN=test.example.com, O=Test will issue 
CN=test.example.com, O=Example
3. request for CN=test.example.com, O=Example will issue 
CN=test.example.com, O=Example

If the installed CA is selfsign then the following will happen:

1. request for CN=test.example.com will be rejected
2. request for CN=test.example.com, O=Test will be rejected
3. request for CN=test.example.com, O=Example will issue 
CN=test.example.com, O=Example

rob
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