Hi Rob, Thank you for the explanation. Makes sense.
Kathy. On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 5:32 PM Rob Crittenden <[email protected]> wrote: > Kathy Zhu via FreeIPA-users wrote: > > Hi Team, > > > > I like to understand more about the /root/cacert.p12 file in a self > > signed CA environment. Here are the questions: > > > > 1, could this file be located somewhere other than under /root? > > 2, what operations use this file instead of nssdb? In other words, if > > the /root/cacert.p12 file were not in place, what operations would fail? > > 3, any good readings to learn more? > > This is not operational. It is a backup of your CA keys in case > something catastrophic happens, created at time of initial server > installation. Depending IPA version you don't need it at all. Early > versions would use this file to prepare replicas. We ended up instead > calling PKCS12Export to generate a new one prior to replica creation. > > I don't think it is really used with domain-level 1 at all, so any > version released in the last 5 years or so. > > It is an artifact that comes out of the CA installation. It's in /root > to provide the best possible protection for the file. The default > /var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/alias/ca_backup_keys.p12. We move it. > > You might find information about it in the RHCS documentation. > > rob > >
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