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".

       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
              certificate,  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".

       notification_method
              This  is  the  method  by which certmonger will notify the system administrator that a certificate
              will soon become invalid.  The recognized 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 will be available  in  the  "CERTMONGER_NOTIFICATION"
              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 default value is daemon.notice.

       key_type
              This is the type of key pair which will be generated, used in certificate  signing  requests,  and
              used  when  self-signing  certificates.   RSA  is  supported.   EC  (also  known as ECDSA) is also
              supported.  The default is RSA.

       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  incompatible  with
              other software.

       digest This  is  the  digest  algorithm  which will be used when signing certificate 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.

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.

BUGS

       Please file tickets for any that you find at https://fedorahosted.org/certmonger/

SEE ALSO

       certmonger(8) certmonger_selinux(8)

certmonger Manual                                 19 April 2012                               certmonger.conf(5)