[DOCS-3640] X.509 auth and SSL certificates scope Created: 24/Jun/14  Updated: 24/Feb/16  Due: 08/May/15  Resolved: 29/Apr/15

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: v1.3.13

Type: Improvement Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Andrew Ryder (Inactive) Assignee: Kay Kim (Inactive)
Resolution: Done Votes: 0
Labels: security-review
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Days since reply: 8 years, 42 weeks ago

 Description   

The documentation needs prerequisites (perhaps in the introduction) which spell out that a knowledgeable understanding of X.509 (and PKI / PMI systems in general) is required before attempting to configure X.509 Auth or SSL with MongoDB.

We get customers expecting a How-To on setting up such things as a CA (Certificate Authority) which appears to be a reasonable expectation without a background in PKI/PMI systems.

MongoDB is not a CA, nor can we provide the appropriate support for customers wanting to set up their own internal CA - this is outside the scope of MongoDB support.

It would be useful to say what is required knowledge before attempting to set-up auth or crypto. I suggest a "prerequisites" link at the top of such tutorials that require knowledge of systems outside the scope of MongoDB, for example:
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/configure-ssl/
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/configure-x509/



 Comments   
Comment by Githook User [ 29/Apr/15 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'kay-kim', u'name': u'kay', u'email': u'kay.kim@10gen.com'}

Message: DOCS-3640 prereq for ssl/x.509 pages
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/092d4c9429fe42af2197488124b9f3da312fbbd5

Comment by Githook User [ 29/Apr/15 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'kay-kim', u'name': u'kay', u'email': u'kay.kim@10gen.com'}

Message: DOCS-3640 prereq for ssl/x.509 pages
Branch: v2.6
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/0c23cd6218c8ac1479d4d67289e4be968d04d4dc

Comment by Githook User [ 29/Apr/15 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'kay-kim', u'name': u'kay', u'email': u'kay.kim@10gen.com'}

Message: DOCS-3640 prereq for ssl
Branch: v2.4
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/4a3b10a80bda4aefb3da36dffd661eb107a6ea19

Comment by Githook User [ 20/Oct/14 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'tychoish', u'name': u'Sam Kleinman', u'email': u'samk@10gen.com'}

Message: DOCS-3640: adding prereq note about ssl ca's and structure to tutorials
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/f9e5846fe8fbf22eb44651f523e9f9683623cde4

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