4.5. CA Connectors

You can use privacyIDEA to enroll certificates and assign certificates to users.

You can define connections to Certifacte Authorities, that are used when enrolling certificates.

A local CA definition

When you enroll a Token of type certificate the Certificate Signing Request gets signed by one of the CAs attached to privacyIDEA by the CA connectors.

The first CA connector that ships with privacyIDEA is a connector to a local openSSL based Certificate Authority as shown in figure A local CA definition.

When enrolling a certificate token you can choose, which CA should sign the certificate request.

Enrolling a certificate token