[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-pki: Increase the validity period for all certificates.

Gurucharan Shetty shettyg at nicira.com
Fri Feb 8 22:49:12 UTC 2013


This patch increases the certificate validity to 100 years
for certificate authorities, the certificates that they certify
and for self signed certificates.

Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>
---
 utilities/ovs-pki.in |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utilities/ovs-pki.in b/utilities/ovs-pki.in
index 1f15410..a506375 100755
--- a/utilities/ovs-pki.in
+++ b/utilities/ovs-pki.in
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ certificate    = $dir/cacert.pem       # The CA cert
 serial         = $dir/serial           # serial no file
 private_key    = $dir/private/cakey.pem# CA private key
 RANDFILE       = $dir/private/.rand    # random number file
-default_days   = 365                   # how long to certify for
+default_days   = 36525                 # how long to certify for
 default_crl_days= 30                   # how long before next CRL
 default_md     = md5                   # md to use
 policy         = policy                # default policy
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ EOF
             -newkey $newkey -keyout private/cakey.pem -out careq.pem \
             1>&3 2>&3
         openssl ca -config ca.cnf -create_serial -out cacert.pem \
-            -days 2191 -batch -keyfile private/cakey.pem -selfsign \
+            -days 36525 -batch -keyfile private/cakey.pem -selfsign \
             -infiles careq.pem 1>&3 2>&3
         chmod 0700 private/cakey.pem
 
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ elif test "$command" = self-sign; then
     # Create both the private key and certificate with restricted permissions.
     (umask 077 && \
      openssl x509 -in "$arg1-req.pem" -out "$arg1-cert.pem.tmp" \
-        -signkey "$arg1-privkey.pem" -req -days 2191 -text) 2>&3 || exit $?
+        -signkey "$arg1-privkey.pem" -req -days 36525 -text) 2>&3 || exit $?
 
     # Reset the permissions on the certificate to the user's default.
     cat "$arg1-cert.pem.tmp" > "$arg1-cert.pem"
-- 
1.7.9.5




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