[Freeipa-users] Public CA signed Certificate import failure

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Mon Jul 20 16:26:34 UTC 2009


James Roman wrote:
> First off, thanks Rob for the direction on creating a certificate. After 
> reading up on Mozilla's NSS, I think I've got a pretty fair grounding.
> 
> So I successfully generated a CSR and had it signed. I imported my 
> certificate and CA chain into the NSS database and exported it to a 
> PKCS12 cert. I am primarily concerned with using the public cert on the 
> HTTP interface. However, when I go to import it using 
> ipa-server-certificate, it chokes on the names in the CA certificate 
> chain. (One of the certs uses full website address for the name.) I can 
> manually import each of the certificates in the CA chain using certutil 
> on the /etc/httpd/alias directory.

What do you mean by choke? Do you have a python backtrace or can you 
send me the ipaserver-install.log?

> Will this work?
> Are there any other configuration changes that I need to make the http 
> interface function properly (like changes in the nss.conf)?
> What about manually modifying the directory server 
> (/etc/dirsrv/slapd-KRBDOMAIN)?
>

What distro are you using?

rob
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