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CERTMONGER(5) File Formats Manual CERTMONGER(5) NAME certmonger.conf - configuration file for certmonger DESCRIPTION The certmonger.conf file contains default settings used by certmonger. Its format is more or less that of a typical INI-style file. The only sections currently of note are named defaults and selfsign. DEFAULTS Within the defaults section, these variables and values are recognized: notify_ttls This is the list of times, given in seconds, before a certificate's not-after validity date (often referred to as its expiration time) when certmonger should warn that the certificate will soon no longer be valid. If this value is not specified, certmonger will attempt to use the value of the ttls setting. The default list of values is "2419200, 604800, 259200, 172800, 86400, 43200, 21600, 7200, 3600". enroll_ttls This is the list of times, given in seconds, before a certificate's not-after validity date (often referred to as its expiration time) when certmonger should attempt to automatically renew the certifi- cate, if it is configured to do so. If this value is not specified, certmonger will attempt to use the value of the ttls setting. The default list of values is "2419200, 604800, 259200, 172800, 86400, 43200, 21600, 7200, 3600". notification_method This is the method by which certmonger will notify the system admin- istrator that a certificate will soon become invalid. The recog- nized values are syslog, mail, and command. The default is syslog. When sending mail, the notification message will be the mail message subject. When invoking a command, the notification message and type will be available in the "CERTMONGER_NOTIFICATION" and "CERTMON- GER_NOTIFICATION_TYPE" environment variables and the related re- quest's nickname/ID will be available in the "CERTMONGER_NOTIFICA- TION_CERT_NICKNAME" environment variable. notification_destination This is the destination to which certmonger will send notifications. It can be a syslog priority and/or facility, separated by a period, it can be an email address, or it can be a command to run. The de- fault value is daemon.notice. key_type This is the type of key pair which will be generated, used in cer- tificate signing requests, and used when self-signing certificates. RSA is supported. EC (also known as ECDSA) is also supported. The default is RSA. rsa_key_size This is the size of an RSA key if the value is not included in a certificate request. If this value is not set then the default is 2048. The minimum value allowed is 1024. symmetric_cipher This is the symmetric cipher which will be used to encrypt private keys stored in OpenSSL's PEM format. Recognized values include aes128 and aes256. The default is aes128. It is not recommended that this value be changed except in cases where the default is in- compatible with other software. digest This is the digest algorithm which will be used when signing cer- tificate signing requests and self-signed certificates. Recognized values include sha1, sha256, sha384, and sha512. The default is sha256. It is not recommended that this value be changed except in cases where the default is incompatible with other software. nss_ca_trust These are the trust attributes which are applied to CA certificates which should be trusted, when they are saved to NSS databases. The default is CT,C,C. nss_other_trust These are the trust attributes which are applied to certificates which are not necessarily to be trusted, when they are saved to NSS databases. The default is ,,. max_key_use_count When attempting to replace a certificate, if certmonger has previ- ously obtained at least this number of certificates using the cur- rent key pair, it will generate a new key pair to use before pro- ceeding. There is effectively no default for this setting. max_key_lifetime The amount of time after a key was first generated when certmonger will attempt to generate a new key pair to replace it, as part of the process of replacing a certificate. The value is specified as a combination of years (y), months (M), weeks (w), days (d), hours (h), minutes (m), and/or seconds (s). If no unit of time is speci- fied, seconds are assumed. The date when a key was generated is not recorded if the key was not generated by certmonger, or if the key was generated with a version of certmonger older than 0.78, and for those cases, this option has no effect. There is effectively no de- fault for this setting. SELFSIGN Within the selfsign section, these variables and values are recognized: validity_period This is the validity period given to self-signed certificates. The value is specified as a combination of years (y), months (M), weeks (w), days (d), hours (h), minutes (m), and/or seconds (s). If no unit of time is specified, seconds are assumed. The default value is 1y. populate_unique_id This controls whether or not self-signed certificates will have their subjectUniqueID and issuerUniqueID fields populated. While RFC5280 prohibits their use, they may be needed and/or used by older applications. The default value is no. LOCAL Within the local section, these variables and values are recognized: validity_period This is the validity period given to the locally-signed CA's cer- tificate when it is generated. The value is specified as a combina- tion of years (y), months (M), weeks (w), days (d), hours (h), min- utes (m), and/or seconds (s). If no unit of time is specified, sec- onds are assumed. If not set, the value of the validity_period set- ting from the selfsign section, if one is set there, will be used. The default value is 1y. SCEP Within the scep section, these variables and values are recognized: challenge_password_otp This controls whether the SCEP challenge password is treated as a one-time password. If set to yes then the challenge password and/or challenge password file will be removed from the tracking request after the first certificate issuance so will not be sent with re- newal requests. The default is no. BUGS Please file tickets for any that you find at https://fedorahosted.org/cert- monger/ SEE ALSO certmonger(8) certmonger_selinux(8) certmonger Manual May 12, 2015 CERTMONGER(5)
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