Alexander Bokovoy via FreeIPA-users wrote:

On to, 08 elo 2019, Christian Reiss via FreeIPA-users wrote:

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Hey folks,

Really quick question. If a host, say web01.example.com is online, in IPA et all but serving supremecustomer.com and I would need a (ipa-signed, which suffices) cert, would this be the right way?

Assumptions: - All commands executed on web01.example.com             - /etc/ssl/ipa & perms are OK.

cert="supremecustomer.com" ipa host-add ${cert} --desc="Dummy Host / ${cert}" --location="$(hostname -f)" ipa host-add-managedby ${cert} --hosts="$(hostname -f)" ipa service-add HTTP/${cert} ipa service-add-host HTTP/${cert} --hosts="$(hostname -f)" ipa-getcert request -r -f /etc/ssl/ipa/${cert}.crt -k /etc/ssl/ipa/${cert}.key -N CN=${cert} -D ${cert} -K HTTP/${cert} chown root:nginx /etc/ssl/ipa/${cert}.{key,crt} chmod 0640 /etc/ssl/ipa/${cert}.{key,crt}

Is this still the way to go? Is there a way around "One dummy host per SNI Certificate" in any way?

Since FreeIPA 4.7.0 you can add a service without host, by using --skip-host-check.

This would work for RHEL 8.x and Fedora 29+.

For older systems you still need a managing host.

Right. Something in IPA needs to show you have permission to issue certificates for a given object.

rob