Bug 581569

Summary:	Authconfig should use certmonger to track LDAP certificates
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh>
Component:	authconfig	Assignee:	Orphan Owner <extras-orphan>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Stephen Gallagher 2010-04-12 15:58:06 UTC

Description of problem:
When setting up LDAP for authentication (as opposed to simply for identities), it is mandatory for the communication to be protected by either SSL or TLS. This means that a trusted CA certificate must be available. In the majority of deployments, the LDAP server will not have a certificate signed by any of the trusted authorities installed by default on the system.

This is why the "Download CA certificate" button exists. However, there remains a problem in that the downloaded certificate will eventually expire. This will cause authentications against LDAP to suddenly fail, with a cryptic connection error in the logs.

With certmonger, it's possible to track the CA certificate, which will report to the syslog when the certificate is approaching expiration, and when it actually has expired. This should make life much easier when debugging connection failures.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
authconfig-6.1.3-1.fc13

Additional info:
Certmonger has a command-line interface as well as a D-BUS system bus interface for requesting that it track certificates.

https://fedorahosted.org/certmonger

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Comment 2 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2020-05-27 14:54:59 UTC

This package has changed maintainer in the Fedora.
Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.

Comment 3 Stephen Gallagher 2020-05-28 12:51:38 UTC

Authconfig has been replaced by authselect.