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We require a way to force the display name into certificates because of security and audit logging. Consider the following use-case (
vault-helper
is our command-line tool that abstracts from raw vault calls used by our tech people):In step (1) we login and the DisplayName is set to
me
. In step (2) we fetch a client certificate for Kubernetes production environment. This is were it gets shady. If someone manually callsvault production/pki/issue/devops
and providescommon_name=you
, the Kubernetes audit logs will trace back toyou
, instead ofme
.Of course we can correlate k8s audit logs with Vault audit logs, but we rather have the guarantee that no one can temper with the CN.
This PR adds the option
use_displayname_cn
to thepki/issue/:role
endpoint that supports the above use-case.