I think the original self-signed cert is created when pkicreate is run, but the actual set of profiles used during the wizard is the *.profile files in the /var/lib/pki-ca/conf/ folder that was mentioned For the other subsystems (DRM, TKS, TPS, never looked at the RA or OCSP systems) it uses the caInternalAuth*.cfg files in /var/lib/pki-ca/profiles/ca folder for the subsystem certs (signing, subsystem, ocsp certs ect) and the /var/lib/pki-ca/profiles/ca/adminCert.profile for the software admin certs loaded into your browser when running the wizards. -----Original Message----- From: pki-users-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:pki-users-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of John Magne Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 2:13 PM To: Arshad Noor Cc: pki-users(a)redhat.com Subject: Re: [Pki-users] Questions on customizing certificate profiles Did you try modifying the source of the files in /var/lib/pki-ca/conf/*.profile ?? When an instance is created, I believe the files are taken from here: /usr/share/pki/ca/conf/*.profile I imagine if you change the files in /var/lib/pki-ca/conf before proceeding with the wizard, things should work. Perhaps the files are cached into memory as soon as the instance is created and before the wizard is executed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arshad Noor" <arshad.noor(a)strongauth.com&gt; To: pki-users(a)redhat.com Sent: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 10:34:20 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [Pki-users] Questions on customizing certificate profiles 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. _______________________________________________ Pki-users mailing list Pki-users(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pki-users _______________________________________________ Pki-users mailing list Pki-users(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pki-users