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26.4. Changing the Certificate Chain
You can modify the certificate chain by renewing the CA certificate using the
ipa-cacert-manage renew.
- Self-signed CA certificate → externally-signed CA certificate
- Add the
--external-caoption toipa-cacert-manage renew. This renews the self-signed CA certificate as an externally-signed CA certificate.For details on running the command with this option, see Section 26.2.2, “Renewing CA Certificates Manually”. - Externally-signed CA certificate → self-signed CA certificate
- Add the
--self-signedoption toipa-cacert-manage renew. This renew the externally-signed CA certificate as a self-signed CA certificate.

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