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🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.
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[Docs]: I think a step's missing in the "Create a new Certificate Authority or an intermediate CA from your existing PKI" doc. #1852

Closed rwv37 closed 1 month ago

rwv37 commented 1 month ago

Hello!

Affected area/feature

The "The Medium Way" section of the "Create a new Certificate Authority or an intermediate CA from your existing PKI" document boils down to (1) step ca init; (2) delete the root key; (3) replace the root cert and the intermediate cert and key.

Seems like you should also replace the "fingerprint" in defaults.json with that of your existing root? I guess you might not need to, but it would at least be good from the point of view of easing things for clients, no?