cert bootstrap bug? (was Re: definitively, I have a problem with eap-tls)

Sergio sergioyebenes at alumnos.upm.es
Thu Jul 24 21:55:28 CEST 2008


Alan DeKok escribió:
> Phil Mayers wrote:
>   
>> Alan - it does look to my untrained eye as if the "client.crt" Makefile
>> target in /etc/raddb/certs is signing the client key with the server
>> key. Is this intentional, or a bug?
>>     
>
>   It's intentional.  It's a perfectly valid use of certificate chains.
>
>   The idea is that you have one CA for your organization, and (perhaps)
> multiple RADIUS servers.  Each server has it's own identity, and can
> issue it's own client certs for EAP-TLS.  But client certs will work
> across multiple servers, because the servers are signed by the same CA.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
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Sorry, only one more note. bootstrap command doesn't make client certs. 
you need to execute "make client.pem" to make it.
I also assume that it is normal.



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