How do I manually renew Identity Management (IPA) certificates on RHEL 8 after they have expired? (CA-less IPA)

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Issue

Identity Management (IdM) installed with or without an embedded Certificate Authority (CA) can use externally signed certificates for the Apache Webserver and 389 Directory Server.

The process is described in the documentation - 11.3. Replacing the web server and LDAP server certificates, but if the certificates are expired on all IPA servers, this approach will not work, because ipa-server-certinstall needs to communicate with other IPA via TLS connection, which will not be verified due to installed certificate invalidity.

For installations with integrated CA, please follow this solution.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 , Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Identity Management (IPA) v4+

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