[Pki-users] Questions on customizing certificate profiles

Andrew Wnuk awnuk at redhat.com
Tue Apr 6 20:37:33 UTC 2010


Arshad,

You could try renewal called "Renew certificate to be manually approved 
by agents". Customize your certificate using agent approval page and 
import new certificate to NSS-DB.

Andrew

On 04/06/10 10:34, Arshad Noor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought I used to know the Certificate Server, but it appears
> that so much has changed that I feel like I'm starting over again.
> Hopefully, I'm the one who's making mistakes and that DogTag is
> really not different from RHCS.
>
> In trying to install DogTag on Fedora 11 (x86_64), I'm unable to
> customize the initial certificates created by the installation
> process.  For example, here is what I'm doing:
>
> 1) Run "yum install pki-ca".
> 2) Run "pkicreate" with appropriate parameters.
> 3) Modify the caCACert.cfg, caServerCert.cfg and all caInternal*.cfg
>    files to do the following:
>
>     - Add "default.params.signingAlg=SHA256withRSA" to the files;
>     - Remove digitalSignature and nonRepudiation for CA cert;
>     - Remove digitalSignature, nonRepudiation, dataEncipherment
>         for Server cert;
>     - Change default validity periods, etc.
>
> Yet, none of the certificates generated by the installation process
> have these changes in them.
>
> I've tried stopping "pki-cad", copying the modified *.cfg files to
> the appropriate "<instance>/profiles/ca" directory and restarting
> pki-cad in case the service needed to see the modified files at
> startup - but to no avail.
>
> I've tried modifying the *.profile files in the /etc/<instance>
> directory, but to no avail.
>
> How does one customize the certificates before the self-signed cert
> is generated?
>
> I'm going through the PDF documentation for RHCS 8.0 and assuming
> that the instructions there apply to DogTag too.  The version number
> of pki-ca I'm picking up is 1.3.2 even though I've specified the 1.2.0
> repository.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Arshad Noor
> StrongAuth, Inc.
>
>
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