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  • RHEL8 certificate locations - using local CA

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    We have an isolated network and we are using a Microsoft CA. Our environment is a Windows AD domain with mostly RHEL7 and RHEL8 machines and some Win10. I was handed down a procedure to generate a CSR and make the request and so on. The directions are only half adequate. I am not a pro at certificates so bear with me.
    I have not been able to find info to explain this in whole, only pieces.

    What I gathered about certificate locations (RHEL)

    key file = /etc/pki/tls/private (.key ext)
    cert = /etc/pki/tls/certs (
    .cer ext)
    CA = /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors (.cer ext)

    I believe I have the generate key, csr and make a request part down okay for the machine itself. Below is my best guess for applying the root CA.

    Get the CA root cert:
    - Open “Certificates” in an MMC
    - Certificates \ Trusted Root Certification Authorities \ Certificates
    - Search for root cert under “issued by” column, open it
    - Click “details” and copy to file
    - Base-64 encoded X.509 (.CER)" format
    - Copy to RH machine under /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors
    - Refresh certs: update-ca-trust extract

    Does any of this seem correct? Is there a website that might describe this process start to finish including root cert?

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