Apr 01, 2020 General OpenSSL Commands. Generate a new RSA private key. Openssl genrsa 4096 private.key Generate a new ECC private key. #secp256r1 openssl ecparam -genkey -name secp256r1 openssl ec -out private.key #secp384r1 openssl ecparam -genkey -name secp384r1 openssl ec -out private.key Generate a new private key and Certificate Signing Request.
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C '[email protected]' This creates a new ssh key, using the provided email as a label. Generating public/private rsa key pair. When you're prompted to 'Enter a file in which to save the key,' press Enter. This accepts the default file location. Oct 01, 2019 # Generate Private Key and Certificate using RSA 256 encryption (4096-bit key) openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout privatekey.pem -out certificate.pem -days 365 # Alternatively, setting the '-newkey' parameter to 'rsa:2048' will generate a 2048-bit key.
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments |
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attributes string | The attributes the resulting file or directory should have. To get supported flags look at the man page for chattr on the target system. This string should contain the attributes in the same order as the one displayed by lsattr. The = operator is assumed as default, otherwise + or - operators need to be included in the string. | |
backup added in 2.8 |
| Create a backup file including a timestamp so you can get the original private key back if you overwrote it with a new one by accident. |
cipher string | The cipher to encrypt the private key. (Valid values can be found by running `openssl list -cipher-algorithms` or `openssl list-cipher-algorithms`, depending on your OpenSSL version.) | |
curve added in 2.8 |
| Note that not all curves are supported by all versions of cryptography .For maximal interoperability, secp384r1 or secp256r1 should be used.We use the curve names as defined in the IANA registry for TLS. |
force boolean |
| Should the key be regenerated even if it already exists. |
group string | Name of the group that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown. | |
mode string | The permissions the resulting file or directory should have. For those used to /usr/bin/chmod remember that modes are actually octal numbers. You must either add a leading zero so that Ansible's YAML parser knows it is an octal number (like 0644 or 01777 ) or quote it (like '644' or '1777' ) so Ansible receives a string and can do its own conversion from string into number.Giving Ansible a number without following one of these rules will end up with a decimal number which will have unexpected results. As of Ansible 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, u+rwx or u=rw,g=r,o=r ).As of Ansible 2.6, the mode may also be the special string preserve .When set to preserve the file will be given the same permissions as the source file. | |
owner string | Name of the user that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown. | |
passphrase string | The passphrase for the private key. | |
path path / required | Name of the file in which the generated TLS/SSL private key will be written. It will have 0600 mode. | |
select_crypto_backend string |
| The default choice is auto , which tries to use cryptography if available, and falls back to pyopenssl .If set to pyopenssl , will try to use the pyOpenSSL library.If set to cryptography , will try to use the cryptography library.Please note that the pyopenssl backend has been deprecated in Ansible 2.9, and will be removed in Ansible 2.13. From that point on, only the cryptography backend will be available. |
selevel string | Default: | The level part of the SELinux file context. This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the range .When set to _default , it will use the level portion of the policy if available. |
serole string | When set to _default , it will use the role portion of the policy if available. | |
setype string | When set to _default , it will use the type portion of the policy if available. | |
seuser string | By default it uses the system policy, where applicable.When set to _default , it will use the user portion of the policy if available. | |
size integer | Default: | Size (in bits) of the TLS/SSL key to generate. |
state string |
| Whether the private key should exist or not, taking action if the state is different from what is stated. |
type string |
| The algorithm used to generate the TLS/SSL private key. Note that ECC , X25519 , X448 , Ed25519 and Ed448 require the cryptography backend. X25519 needs cryptography 2.5 or newer, while X448 , Ed25519 and Ed448 require cryptography 2.6 or newer. For ECC , the minimal cryptography version required depends on the curve option. |
unsafe_writes boolean |
| Influence when to use atomic operation to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target file. By default this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target files, but sometimes systems are configured or just broken in ways that prevent this. One example is docker mounted files, which cannot be updated atomically from inside the container and can only be written in an unsafe manner. This option allows Ansible to fall back to unsafe methods of updating files when atomic operations fail (however, it doesn't force Ansible to perform unsafe writes). IMPORTANT! Unsafe writes are subject to race conditions and can lead to data corruption. |
See also
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key | Returned | Description |
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backup_file string | changed and if backup is yes | Sample: |
curve | changed or success, and type is ECC | Elliptic curve used to generate the TLS/SSL private key. secp256r1 |
filename string | changed or success | Sample: |
fingerprint | changed or success | The fingerprint of the public key. Fingerprint will be generated for each hashlib.algorithms available.The PyOpenSSL backend requires PyOpenSSL >= 16.0 for meaningful output. {'md5': '84:75:71:72:8d:04:b5:6c:4d:37:6d:66:83:f5:4c:29', 'sha1': '51:cc:7c:68:5d:eb:41:43:88:7e:1a:ae:c7:f8:24:72:ee:71:f6:10', 'sha224': 'b1:19:a6:6c:14:ac:33:1d:ed:18:50:d3:06:5c:b2:32:91:f1:f1:52:8c:cb:d5:75:e9:f5:9b:46', 'sha256': '41:ab:c7:cb:d5:5f:30:60:46:99:ac:d4:00:70:cf:a1:76:4f:24:5d:10:24:57:5d:51:6e:09:97:df:2f:de:c7', 'sha384': '85:39:50:4e:de:d9:19:33:40:70:ae:10:ab:59:24:19:51:c3:a2:e4:0b:1c:b1:6e:dd:b3:0c:d9:9e:6a:46:af:da:18:f8:ef:ae:2e:c0:9a:75:2c:9b:b3:0f:3a:5f:3d', 'sha512': 'fd:ed:5e:39:48:5f:9f:fe:7f:25:06:3f:79:08:cd:ee:a5:e7:b3:3d:13:82:87:1f:84:e1:f5:c7:28:77:53:94:86:56:38:69:f0:d9:35:22:01:1e:a6:60:..:0f:9b'} |
size integer | changed or success | Sample: |
type | changed or success | Algorithm used to generate the TLS/SSL private key. RSA |
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Generate self-signed certificate using openssl
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Options that you might want to change while creating a self-signed certificate:
Option | Description |
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-newkey rsa:4096 | Generate a 4096 bit RSA key. |
-keyout key.pem | Save a key to the key.pem file. |
-out cert.pem | Save a certificate to the cert.pem file. |
-nodes | Do not protect the private key with a passphrase. |
-days 365 | The number of days to make a certificate valid for. |
-subj '/CN=localhost' | Use this option to suppress questions about the contents of the certificate. Replace localhost with your desired domain name. |