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ipasmartcard_client role

Description

This role allows to configure IPA clients for Smart Card authentication.

Note: The ansible-freeipa smartcard client role requires an enrolled IPA client.

Features

  • Client setup for Smart Card authentication

Supported FreeIPA Versions

FreeIPA versions 4.5 and up are supported by this role.

Supported Distributions

  • RHEL/CentOS 7.6+
  • CentOS Stream 8+
  • Fedora 26+

Requirements

Controller

  • Ansible version: 2.14+

Node

  • Supported FreeIPA version (see above)
  • Supported distribution (needed for package installation only, see above)
  • Enrolled IPA client

Limitations

Only the enablement of smartcards is supported by the role, there is no disablement.

Usage

Example inventory file with IPA clients:

[ipaclients]
ipaclient1.example.com
ipaclient2.example.com

[ipaclients:vars]
ipaadmin_password=SomeADMINpassword
ipasmartcard_client_ca_certs=/etc/ipa/ca.crt

Example playbook to setup smartcard for the IPA clients using admin password and ipasmartcard_client_ca_certs from inventory file:

---
- name: Playbook to setup smartcard for IPA clients
  hosts: ipaclients
  become: true

  roles:
  - role: ipasmartcard_client
    state: present

Playbooks

The playbooks needed to setup smartcard for the IPA clients is part of the repository in the playbooks folder.

install-smartcard-clients.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.

How to setup smartcard for clients

ansible-playbook -v -i inventory/hosts install-smartcard-clients.yml

This will setup the clients for smartcard use.

Variables

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
ipasmartcard_client_ca_certs The CA certificates for smartcard use. If ipasmartcard_client_ca_certs is not set, but ipasmartcard_server_ca_certs, then ipasmartcard_server_ca_certs will be used. yes

Authors

Thomas Woerner