How to customize Red Hat Certificate System root Certificate Authority signing cert validity dates and extensions?

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Issue

There are currently no options in the web based configuration wizard to specify custom signing certificate validity dates and extensions for a Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) root Certificate Authority (CA).
It is important to be able to customize a root Certificate Authority (CA) characteristics, not just those of subordinate CA's, servers and users certificates.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Directory Server 8
    201409
    redhat-ds-base-8.2.11-16.el5dsrv
    
  • Red Hat Certificate System 8
    201409
    pki-ca-8.1.6-1.el5pki.noarch.rpm
    

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