[Freeipa-users] ipa-replica-install --setup-ca: do or don't?

2015-12-28 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, how comes that '--setup-ca' is not the default for ipa-replica-install? What is best practice wrt creating a local ca on the replicas? Every insightful comment is highly appreciated. Best seasons greetings Harri -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-users mailing list:

Re: [Freeipa-users] ipa-replica-install --setup-ca: do or don't?

2015-12-28 Thread Karl Forner
> There is no need to have a CA on every ipa server, so a CA is not > installed by default. What is the downside of having every replica as a CA ? Because in case of big trouble with your master, if your replica is not a CA you can not replace your master from this replica right ? In particular

Re: [Freeipa-users] ipa-replica-install --setup-ca: do or don't?

2015-12-28 Thread Simo Sorce
On Mon, 2015-12-28 at 13:10 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > how comes that '--setup-ca' is not the default for > ipa-replica-install? What is best practice wrt creating > a local ca on the replicas? > > Every insightful comment is highly appreciated. There is no need to have a CA on

Re: [Freeipa-users] ipa-replica-install --setup-ca: do or don't?

2015-12-28 Thread Simo Sorce
On Mon, 2015-12-28 at 19:18 +0100, Karl Forner wrote: > > There is no need to have a CA on every ipa server, so a CA is not > > installed by default. > > What is the downside of having every replica as a CA ? A CA is relatively heavyweight as the dogtag code brings up a whole java VM, also it