[Spacewalk-list] Help with client connection to Spacewalk Proxy via SSL with CA signed cert

Walid walid.shaari at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 19:03:46 UTC 2011


Dear William,

May I ask why you are using such topology spwalk + 2 proxy ? and do you mean
the ss.csr from proxis signed by the CA from the master space walk?

kind regards

Walid

On 12 August 2011 21:44, William Clark <majorgearhead at gmail.com> wrote:

> I solved the issue.  I took the csr in /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.csr and used
> that to get a signed cert from my CA.  I then took the resultant cert and
> moved it to /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt.  I then restarted httpd and
> I no longer get ssl errors on clients trying to connect to the proxy with
> ssl.  Nothing else broke in the process so I believe I am good to go.
>
> William Clark
>
> On Aug 12, 2011, at 11:07 AM, William Clark wrote:
>
> > Here is some background on the system I am running.  I currently have a
> single spacewalk server running SW1.4 and I have 2 proxy servers running
> proxy 1.4.
> >
> > On my spacewalk server I have a CA signed cert and set everything up for
> that.  I connected the proxy's and they communicate to the master server
> over ssl with no issues.  The problem comes in when I try to connect via SSL
> from a client to one of the proxy servers.  I get SSL certificate errors.  I
> suspect that this may have something to do with the fact that I have a CA
> signed cert on the master but not the proxy's.  So when the proxy's try and
> validate their self signed certs against the CA chain I have from a valid CA
> they cannot validate their certs.
> >
> > Question is, is there a way to get CA signed certs in place on the
> proxy's so that I can connect to the proxy's from clients via SSL?
> >
> > William Clark
> >
>
>
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