shib-keygen

Langue: en

Version: 2009-03-04 (debian - 07/07/09)

Section: 8 (Commandes administrateur)

NAME

shib-keygen - Generate a key pair for a Shibboleth SP

SYNOPSIS

shib-keygen [-bf] [-e entity-id] [-h hostname]
    [-y years]

DESCRIPTION

Generate a self-signed X.509 certificate for a Shibboleth SP. By default, the certificate will be for the local fully-qualified (as returned by "hostname --fqdn") hostname. An entity ID can be specified with the -e flag. The openssl command-line client is used to generate the key pair. The public certificate will be created in /etc/shibboleth/sp-cert.pem and the private key in /etc/shibboleth/sp-key.pem.

OPTIONS

-b
Suppress all standard error output when creating the certificate. This option is normally only used by the package build.
-e entity-id
Add entity-id (which should be a URI) as an alternative name for the certificate.
-f
Remove /etc/shibboleth/sp-cert.pem and /etc/shibboleth/sp-key.pem before generating a new certificate. Without this option, if those files already exist, shib-keygen prints an error and exits rather than overwriting them.
-h hostname
Specify the fully-qualified domain name for which to generate a certificate. If this option isn't given, the hostname defaults to the result of "hostname --fqdn".
-y years
The number of years for which the certificate should be valid. The default expiration time is ten years into the future.

FILES

/etc/shibboleth/sp-cert.cnf
The OpenSSL configuration file used for generating the self-signed certificate. This configuration file is generated when the script is run and deleted afterwards.
/etc/shibboelth/sp-cert.pem
The public certificate created by this script.
/etc/shibboleth/sp-key.pem
The private key for the certificate created by this script.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Russ Allbery for Debian GNU/Linux. Copyright 2008 Russ Allbery. This manual page is hereby placed into the public domain by its author.