Re: [Freeipa-users] PKI signing certificate question

2016-08-02 Thread William Muriithi
Mateusz >> > There is "X.509 Name Constraints" extension for certificates, however >> > external CA would have to make this extension as "critical" (which would >> > probably cause compatibility issues with some software - "critical" means >> > that if some app doesn't know how to handle this

Re: [Freeipa-users] PKI signing certificate question

2016-08-01 Thread Mateusz Małek
William, On 02.08.2016 at 00:41, William Muriithi wrote: > > > > Which external CA would be more open to signing this kind of certificate? > > > > I'm afraid that there is not a single external CA that would sign request for CA certificate. (...) > > Understandable. Did speak with them and

Re: [Freeipa-users] PKI signing certificate question

2016-08-01 Thread William Muriithi
Mateusz > > > > Which external CA would be more open to signing this kind of certificate? > > I'm afraid that there is not a single external CA that would sign request for CA certificate. They need to make sure that certificate would not be used for fraudulent purposes (for e.g. Man-in-the-Middle

Re: [Freeipa-users] PKI signing certificate question

2016-08-01 Thread Mateusz Małek
William, On 29.07.2016 at 22:27, William Muriithi wrote: > Is anyone here been successful in getting external CA to sign this kind of certificate? I have just tried to convince DigiCert for 2 days that there is no harm issuing this kind of certificate as long us it's restricted to one

Re: [Freeipa-users] PKI signing certificate question

2016-07-29 Thread William Muriithi
Clark, Thank you. > I personally haven't done this, but from https://www.freeipa.org/page/PKI > > "when --external-ca option is used, ipa-server-install produces a certificate certificate request for it's CA certificate so that it can be properly chained in existing PKI infrastructure." > Is

Re: [Freeipa-users] PKI signing certificate question

2016-07-27 Thread Anthony Clark
I personally haven't done this, but from https://www.freeipa.org/page/PKI "when --external-ca option is used, ipa-server-install produces a certificate certificate request for it's CA certificate so that it can be properly chained in existing PKI infrastructure." and from

[Freeipa-users] PKI signing certificate question

2016-07-27 Thread William Muriithi
Hello I want to use an external certificate when setting up a new FreeIPA next week and plan to send the CSR tomorrow. I would like to source a certificate for example.com and use it on FreeIPA on eng.example.com. I can't specifically set the FreeIPA on example.com because we have active