#7246 Report CA Subject DN and subject base before installing.
Closed: fixed Opened by ftweedal.

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:

  • 34f73b4a94ce9622380228825aa15d5b12c1bb6f install: report CA Subject DN and subject base to be used

Metadata Update from @cheimes:
- Issue close_status updated to: fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

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