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Using AD signed certificates with vCenter Server Appliance 6

19/07/2015 by Myles Gray 4 Comments

Creating signed certs for vCenter has never been easy, with the new release of 6.0 though this has changed somewhat, there is a built in certificate manager that allows you to import a CA (say Microsoft AD) cert and key to have VMCA sign it’s own certs with and make them trusted. First thing, we […]

Filed Under: Security Tagged With: active directory, certificate manager, certificates, vcenter

Creating a vSphere 6 certificate template in Active Directory

19/07/2015 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

Signing certs for VMware has always been a pain in the ass, it’s gotten a lot better in v6 but there are a few caveats, what we’re going to do here is set up a certificate template in Active Directory from which we will sign our vCenter certificates. Load up your AD-CA box and run: […]

Filed Under: Security Tagged With: active directory, certificates, certtmpl.msc, vcenter, vsphere 6

Utilising Kerberos/AD auth in Ubuntu 14.04 with realmd

08/12/2014 by Myles Gray 30 Comments

It has, over the years always been quite a quandary to get SSO auth working from *nix->MS AD without a huge amount of fiddling and tinkering, but there is a new auth framework in town by the name of realmd. While tinkering with The Foreman recently it had dawned on me it would be cool […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure, Software Tagged With: active directory, authentication, linux, ubuntu

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