When installing IPA interactively, the installer reports various deployment parameters (e.g. hostname, realm, dns forwarders, etc) and prompts to user for confirmation to proceed.
We should add the CA Subject DN and Subject Base to the list of parameters displayed.
Justification (excerpt from upcoming blog post):
Why do people want to change the CA Subject DN? Every explanation I have heard amounts to *"we don't like the one we have"*, or occasionally *"it doesn't meet out organisation's guidelines"*. For FreeIPA this usually means that the default CA Subject DN was used during installation, and now they wish for something different. To be fair, the FreeIPA installer does not prompt for a CA Subject DN but rather uses the default form unless explicitly told otherwise via options. Furthermore, prior to FreeIPA version 4.5, the CA Subject DN was only partially customisable (specifically, the DN always started with ``CN=Certificate Authority``). So in most cases where an administrator wants to change the CA Subject DN, it is not because they chose the wrong one, but rather they were *not given the opportunity to choose the right one*.
Therefore, let's show the admin what they're configuring, which gives them an opportunity to contemplate whether it is what they want :)
Metadata Update from @ftweedal: - Issue tagged with: easyfix
Metadata Update from @pvoborni: - Issue tagged with: rfe, ux
Metadata Update from @frenaud: - Issue set to the milestone: FreeIPA 4.7
Metadata Update from @ftweedal: - Issue assigned to ftweedal
Metadata Update from @ftweedal: - Custom field on_review adjusted to https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/1359
master:
Metadata Update from @cheimes: - Issue close_status updated to: fixed - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)