Hi Fraser, I think I will go with the option a). It appears to be simpler one 
and I can ditch AD in the future if IPA became good enough to replace it. So 
they aren’t tied.

Thank you.

PS: You’re the same guy of the link.

> On 19 Jul 2020, at 23:22, Fraser Tweedale <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 12:45:03AM +0000, Vinícius Ferrão via
> FreeIPA-users wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I need to issue some certificates for the AD Environment and I
>> don’t have ADCS in place. So my FreeIPA deployment was with a self
>> signed CA and the common AD Trust enabled.
>> 
>> Now with this issue I’m looking on the IPA’s documentation and
>> there’s some recommendations to deploy IPA as as subCA from ADCS,
>> but as as I said, I don’t have it. So I was thinking if it’s
>> possible to issue certificates for Windows machines directly form
>> FreeIPA, and if this is recommended or not.
>> 
>> If it’s possible but it will be a hassle, there’s a way to make
>> FreeIPA talk with ADCS after the deployment? I can setup an ADCS
>> instance to keep Windows certificates in a separate location.
>> 
>> I saw this post:
>> https://frasertweedale.github.io/blog-redhat/posts/2019-09-23-direct-integration-ipa-certs.html
>> but I don’t think it’s the same issue here; the valuable info that
>> I found on this site is about trusting the FreeIPA CA certificate
>> on Windows environment: "Operationally there is one additional
>> step when the IPA CA is not subordinate to the AD CA: the IPA CA
>> certificate has to be explicitly trusted.”; but the use case does
>> not seems to be on a Windows system.
>> 
>> Thanks for any guidance.
>> 
> Hi Vinícius,
> 
> FreeIPA does not support the enrolment protocols used by Windows
> systems.  You might ahve an easier time using AD-CS.  If you decide
> to use AD-CS you have three options on how to relate the PKIs:
> 
> a) Have AD-CS as a separate PKI.  You will need to add the AD-CS CA
>   cert to IPA's trust store and vice-versa.
> 
> b) Re-chain the IPA CA to become a subordinate of the AD-CS CA.
> 
> c) Make AD-CS a subordinate of the IPA CA.  See [1] for how to issue
>   subordinate CA certs from FreeIPA.
> 
> [1] 
> https://frasertweedale.github.io/blog-redhat/posts/2018-08-21-ipa-subordinate-ca.html
> 
> If you decide to continue without AD-CS, we can help with issuance
> (the profile configuration, CA ACLs, etc) but I have no idea about
> the procedure on the Windows side (creating the CSR, installing the
> certificate, etc).
> 
> Cheers,
> Fraser
> 

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