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How to properly setup local certificate authorities for sub domains? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by kylian0087@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello everyone,

A bit of background on how things are configured: I have many local services and am in the process of setting up two local domains, namely local1.publick.com and local2.publick.com. I own the domain name publick.com and manage it through Cloudflare.

Local1 is for the Windows domain and is using Active Directory, while local2 is for the Linux domain and is using RHEL IDM.

Now, as I am also exploring Single Sign-On (SSO) with Keycloak and a few other things, I would like to properly set up SSL for all these subdomains. Can I configure two local certificate authorities? One for local1.public.com and another for local2.publick.com? I would then use these to create certificates for service.local1.publick.com and service.local2.publick.com. Since the AD domain controller and RHEL IDM controller are authoritative for these two domains, can I still integrate two CAs with this setup?

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[-] solrize@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You can also use certbot on the subdomain servers if they are on the Internet, to auto-renew individual subdomain certificates. To run a "real" CA you need a lot of opsec and infrastructure regardless of what software you use. For basic dev-level purposes, CA.pl works and has been around forever, though I'm sure there is better stuff out there.

Re perl, see also: https://xkcd.com/224/ :)

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can also use certbot on the subdomain servers if they are on the Internet, to auto-renew individual subdomain certificates. To run a “real” CA you need a lot of opsec and infrastructure regardless of what software you use

Yes, I agree with you and I always tell everyone to stay away from creating a CA. - it's just not worth it the workload and the risks. Either way certbot can be even used without exposing local servers to the internet with DNS challenges and other means of authentication. The wildcard has the advantage of not having to publish those subdomains publicly in some for (DNS) or another (crt.sh).

For basic dev-level purposes, CA.pl works and has been around forever, though I’m sure there is better stuff out there.

https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert is the way to go for that.

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