It seem like ALIAS_CACERT_ASC was just a redundant location for the CA cert file which is always available in /etc/ipa/ca.crt Just use the canonical CA cert location in /etc/ipa for all cases and stop creating a separate cacert file. https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5959 Signed-off-by: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com> Reviewed-By: Jan Cholasta <jcholast@redhat.com>