Creating user certificate capable of signing emails (S/MIME) with IdM's CA
Issue
S/MIME
stands for Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension. S/MIME
certificates are commonly used as email signing certificates or personal authentication certificates.
In order to create user certificate with ability to sign emails, we need to add S/MIME
attributes to usual user certificate. Certificate has to have E-mail Protection
extended key usage, provided by exKeyUsageOID
1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.4.
Environment
IPA
4+ with embedded CA
RHEL
7.9+
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