This role allows to configure an IPA server (master or replica) for Smart Card authentication.
Note: The ansible-freeipa smartcard server role requires a configured IPA server with ipa-ca.DOMAIN resolvable by the DNS server.
With external DNS ipa-ca.DOMAIN needs to be set.
- Server setup for Smart Card authentication
FreeIPA versions 4.5 and up are supported by this role.
- RHEL/CentOS 7.6+
- CentOS Stream 8+
- Fedora 26+
Controller
- Ansible version: 2.15+
Node
- Supported FreeIPA version (see above)
- Supported distribution (needed for package installation only, see above)
- Deployed IPA server
Only the enablement of smartcards is supported by the role, there is no disablement. The disablement of features in IPA in not supported.
Example inventory file with ipa server and replicas:
[ipaserver]
ipaserver.example.com
[ipareplicas]
ipareplica1.example.com
ipareplica2.example.com
[ipacluster:children]
ipaserver
ipareplicas
[ipacluster:vars]
ipaadmin_password=SomeADMINpassword
ipasmartcard_server_ca_certs=/etc/ipa/ca.crt
Example playbook to setup smartcard for the IPA server using admin password and ipasmartcard_server_ca_certs from inventory file:
---
- name: Playbook to setup smartcard for IPA server
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
roles:
- role: ipasmartcard_server
state: present
Example playbook to setup smartcard for the IPA servers in ipareplicas group using admin password and ipasmartcard_server_ca_certs from inventory file:
---
- name: Playbook to setup smartcard for IPA replicas
hosts: ipareplicas
become: true
roles:
- role: ipasmartcard_server
state: present
Example playbook to setup smartcard for the IPA servers in ipaserver and ipareplicas group using admin password and ipasmartcard_server_ca_certs from inventory file:
---
- name: Playbook to setup smartcard for IPA server and replicas
hosts: ipaserver, ipareplicas
become: true
roles:
- role: ipasmartcard_server
state: present
The playbooks needed to setup smartcard for the IPA server and the replicas are part of the repository in the playbooks folder.
install-smartcard-server.yml
install-smartcard-servers.yml
install-smartcard-replicas.yml
Please remember to link or copy the playbooks to the base directory of ansible-freeipa if you want to use the roles within the source archive.
ansible-playbook -v -i inventory/hosts install-smartcard-server.yml
This will setup the server for smartcard use.
ansible-playbook -v -i inventory/hosts install-smartcard-replicas.yml
This will setup the replicas for smartcard use.
ansible-playbook -v -i inventory/hosts install-smartcard-servers.yml
This will setup the replicas for smartcard use.
Variable | Description | Required |
---|---|---|
ipaadmin_principal |
The kerberos principal used for admin. Will be set to admin if not set. (string) |
no |
ipaadmin_password |
The password for the IPA admin user. As an alternative an admin user keytab can be used instead with ipaadmin_keytab . (string) |
yes |
ipaadmin_keytab |
The admin keytab as an alternative to ipaadmin_password . (string) |
no |
ipaserver_hostname |
Fully qualified name of the server. By default ansible_facts['fqdn'] will be used. (string) |
no |
ipaserver_domain |
The primary DNS domain of an existing IPA deployment. By default the domain will be used from ipa server-find result. (string) | no |
ipasmartcard_server_ca_certs |
The CA certificates for smartcard use. (list of string) | yes |
Thomas Woerner