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community.crypto.openssl_pkcs12 – Generate OpenSSL PKCS#12 archive

Note

This plugin is part of the community.crypto collection (version 1.9.6).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.crypto.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.crypto.openssl_pkcs12.

Synopsis

  • This module allows one to (re-)generate PKCS#12.
  • The module can use the cryptography Python library, or the pyOpenSSL Python library. By default, it tries to detect which one is available, assuming none of the iter_size and maciter_size options are used. This can be overridden with the select_crypto_backend option.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • PyOpenSSL >= 0.15 or cryptography >= 3.0

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
action
string
    Choices:
  • export
  • parse
export or parse a PKCS#12.
attributes
string
added in 2.3 of ansible.builtin
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.

aliases: attr
backup
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Create a backup file including a timestamp so you can get the original output file back if you overwrote it with a new one by accident.
certificate_path
path
The path to read certificates and private keys from.
Must be in PEM format.
force
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Should the file be regenerated even if it already exists.
friendly_name
string
Specifies the friendly name for the certificate and private key.

aliases: name
group
string
Name of the group that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown.
iter_size
integer
Number of times to repeat the encryption step.
This is not considered during idempotency checks.
This is only used by the pyopenssl backend. When using it, the default is 2048.
maciter_size
integer
Number of times to repeat the MAC step.
This is not considered during idempotency checks.
This is only used by the pyopenssl backend. When using it, the default is 1.
mode
raw
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).
If mode is not specified and the destination file does not exist, the default umask on the system will be used when setting the mode for the newly created file.
If mode is not specified and the destination file does exist, the mode of the existing file will be used.
Specifying mode is the best way to ensure files are created with the correct permissions. See CVE-2020-1736 for further details.
other_certificates
list / elements=path
List of other certificates to include. Pre Ansible 2.8 this parameter was called ca_certificates.
Assumes there is one PEM-encoded certificate per file. If a file contains multiple PEM certificates, set other_certificates_parse_all to true.

aliases: ca_certificates
other_certificates_parse_all
boolean
added in 1.4.0 of community.crypto
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
If set to true, assumes that the files mentioned in other_certificates can contain more than one certificate per file (or even none per file).
owner
string
Name of the user that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown.
passphrase
string
The PKCS#12 password.
Note: PKCS12 encryption is not secure and should not be used as a security mechanism. If you need to store or send a PKCS12 file safely, you should additionally encrypt it with something else.
path
path / required
Filename to write the PKCS#12 file to.
privatekey_passphrase
string
Passphrase source to decrypt any input private keys with.
privatekey_path
path
File to read private key from.
return_content
boolean
added in 1.0.0 of community.crypto
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
If set to yes, will return the (current or generated) PKCS#12's content as pkcs12.
select_crypto_backend
string
added in 1.7.0 of community.crypto
    Choices:
  • auto
  • cryptography
  • pyopenssl
Determines which crypto backend to use.
The default choice is auto, which tries to use cryptography if available, and falls back to pyopenssl. If one of iter_size or maciter_size is used, auto will always result in pyopenssl to be chosen for backwards compatibility.
If set to pyopenssl, will try to use the pyOpenSSL library.
If set to cryptography, will try to use the cryptography library.
selevel
string
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
The role part of the SELinux file context.
When set to _default, it will use the role portion of the policy if available.
setype
string
The type part of the SELinux file context.
When set to _default, it will use the type portion of the policy if available.
seuser
string
The user part of the SELinux file context.
By default it uses the system policy, where applicable.
When set to _default, it will use the user portion of the policy if available.
src
path
PKCS#12 file path to parse.
state
string
    Choices:
  • absent
  • present
Whether the file should exist or not. All parameters except path are ignored when state is absent.
unsafe_writes
boolean
added in 2.2 of ansible.builtin
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
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

See also

community.crypto.x509_certificate

The official documentation on the community.crypto.x509_certificate module.

community.crypto.openssl_csr

The official documentation on the community.crypto.openssl_csr module.

community.crypto.openssl_dhparam

The official documentation on the community.crypto.openssl_dhparam module.

community.crypto.openssl_privatekey

The official documentation on the community.crypto.openssl_privatekey module.

community.crypto.openssl_publickey

The official documentation on the community.crypto.openssl_publickey module.

Examples

- name: Generate PKCS#12 file
  community.crypto.openssl_pkcs12:
    action: export
    path: /opt/certs/ansible.p12
    friendly_name: raclette
    privatekey_path: /opt/certs/keys/key.pem
    certificate_path: /opt/certs/cert.pem
    other_certificates: /opt/certs/ca.pem
    # Note that if /opt/certs/ca.pem contains multiple certificates,
    # only the first one will be used. See the other_certificates_parse_all
    # option for changing this behavior.
    state: present

- name: Generate PKCS#12 file
  community.crypto.openssl_pkcs12:
    action: export
    path: /opt/certs/ansible.p12
    friendly_name: raclette
    privatekey_path: /opt/certs/keys/key.pem
    certificate_path: /opt/certs/cert.pem
    other_certificates_parse_all: true
    other_certificates:
      - /opt/certs/ca_bundle.pem
        # Since we set other_certificates_parse_all to true, all
        # certificates in the CA bundle are included and not just
        # the first one.
      - /opt/certs/intermediate.pem
        # In case this file has multiple certificates in it,
        # all will be included as well.
    state: present

- name: Change PKCS#12 file permission
  community.crypto.openssl_pkcs12:
    action: export
    path: /opt/certs/ansible.p12
    friendly_name: raclette
    privatekey_path: /opt/certs/keys/key.pem
    certificate_path: /opt/certs/cert.pem
    other_certificates: /opt/certs/ca.pem
    state: present
    mode: '0600'

- name: Regen PKCS#12 file
  community.crypto.openssl_pkcs12:
    action: export
    src: /opt/certs/ansible.p12
    path: /opt/certs/ansible.p12
    friendly_name: raclette
    privatekey_path: /opt/certs/keys/key.pem
    certificate_path: /opt/certs/cert.pem
    other_certificates: /opt/certs/ca.pem
    state: present
    mode: '0600'
    force: yes

- name: Dump/Parse PKCS#12 file
  community.crypto.openssl_pkcs12:
    action: parse
    src: /opt/certs/ansible.p12
    path: /opt/certs/ansible.pem
    state: present

- name: Remove PKCS#12 file
  community.crypto.openssl_pkcs12:
    path: /opt/certs/ansible.p12
    state: absent

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
backup_file
string
changed and if backup is yes
Name of backup file created.

Sample:
/path/to/ansible.com.pem.2019-03-09@11:22~
filename
string
changed or success
Path to the generate PKCS#12 file.

Sample:
/opt/certs/ansible.p12
pkcs12
string
added in 1.0.0 of community.crypto
if state is present and return_content is yes
The (current or generated) PKCS#12's content Base64 encoded.

privatekey
string
changed or success
Path to the TLS/SSL private key the public key was generated from.

Sample:
/etc/ssl/private/ansible.com.pem


Authors

  • Guillaume Delpierre (@gdelpierre)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/crypto/openssl_pkcs12_module.html