Ian Pilcher via FreeIPA-users wrote:
I am trying to script the creation of a bunch of host certificates.
Unlike the web UI, the CLI seems to require two separate steps to do
this. (Please correct me if I'm wrong about this.)
After I generate a key and CSR, I create a certificate with
'ipa cert-request'. I am using host/${HOSTNAME}@${REALM} as the
principal, and I am saving the certificate with the --certificate-out
option.
Now I apparently need to use 'ipa host-add-cert' to add the certificate
to the host, but this requires that the certificate be passed in base64
format on the command line. I'm sure I can figure out how to do this
with some combination of sed, tr, etc., but this seems excessively
painful. Is there really not a way to do this in a single step or feed
a PEM-encoded certificate to 'ipa host-add-cert'?
The cert should be added to the entry automatically by ipa cert-request.
Sadly the UI for adding a cert is a bit lacking. This should work:
$ ipa host-mod --certificate="`cat /tmp/cert.pem | grep -v ^\-`"
test.example.test
rob