On 08/03/2016 07:54 PM, Richard Harmonson wrote:
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Florence Blanc-Renaud <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 08/02/2016 04:52 AM, Richard Harmonson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Petr Vobornik
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
On 07/31/2016 07:45 AM, Richard Harmonson wrote:
> I having challenges resuming ipa-server-install
--external-ca. I
am reasonably
> confident I am not providing the right certificate and/or
format
from my
> off-line root CA using 389 and Dogtag.
>
> Does anyone have instructions on how to accomplish the task of
exporting the
> correct certificates in the expected format?
>
> Thank you.
>
The IPA procedure with prerequisites is described at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Linux_Domain_Identity_Authentication_and_Policy_Guide/install-server.html#install-server-external-ca
Or are you rather asking for specific PKI instructions?
e.g.
*
http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Certificate_CLI#Submitting_a_Certificate_Request
*
http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/CA_Certificate_Profiles#caCACert:_Manual_Certificate_Manager_Signing_Certificate_Enrollment
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Petr Vobornik
I read the suggested document, previously, but its an excellent
shared
reference for this discussion.
I have successfully submitted and approved the csr. Dogtag
provides a
web UI which provides a Base 64 encoded certificate or Base 64
encoded
certificate with CA certificate chain in pkcs7 format.
For the servercert2010601.pem (the signed CSR request signing CA
certificate 0x9) referenced in the article, do I copy and paste
(-----BEGIN .. END-----) the base 64 (not pkcs7) to a file using
*.pem
then submit using one of the two --external-cert-file?
For the cacert.pem (the Root CA signing certificate 0x1)
referenced in
the article, do I copy and paste the base 64 with ca in pkcs7
format to
a file using *.pkcs7 (or pem or does it matter?) then submit
using the
second --external-cert-file?
Your guidance is much appreciated.
Hi Richard,
I tested the following steps to install FreeIPA with a certificate
signed by an external Dogtag instance:
1- IPA installation on host ipaserver with:
ipaserver$ ipa-server-install [options] --external-ca
This step produces the Certificate Signing Request /root/ipa.csr
that must be provided to the Dogtag server.
2- On the Dogtag machine, configure Dogtag client authentication (to
be able to use the command-line):
dogtagsrv$ pki -c password client-init
This step creates a NSSDB in ~/.dogtag/nssdb where the certificates
for client->dogtag server authentication will be stored.
dogtagsrv$ pk12util -i /root/.dogtag/pki-tomcat/ca_admin_cert.p12 -d
/root/.dogtag/nssdb/
This step imports the caadmin certificate that was created during
Dogtag installation into the client NSSDB. The client will be able
to authenticate as "caadmin" when using Dogtag CLI. Please note the
certicate nickname that can be found using
dogtagsrv$ certutil -L -d ~/.dogtag/nssdb/
[...]
PKI Administrator for <security domain> u,u,u
3- On the Dogtag machine, submit the CSR and approve:
dogtagsrv$ pki ca-cert-request-submit --profile caCACert
--request-type pkcs10 --csr-file /path/to/ipa.csr
This step submits the csr to Dogtag, using the caCACert profile in
order to produce a Certificate that can be used for a Certificate
Authority. Note the Request ID in the output as it will be used in
the next command to approve the CSR and produce the cert:
dogtagsrv$ pki -c password -d ~/.dogtag/nssdb/ -n "PKI Administrator
for <security domain>" cert-request-review <id> --action approve
4- On the Dogtag machine, export the certificate and the dogtag CA cert:
dogtagsrv$ pki -c password -d ~/.dogtag/nssdb/ -n "PKI Administrator
for <security domain>" cert-show 7 --encoded --output ipa.cert
dogtagsrv$ pki ca-cert-show 1 --encoded --output dogtagca.cert
5- Resume ipa server installation with
ipaserver$ ipa-server-install --external-cert-file=ipa.cert
--external-cert-file=dogtagca.cert
With those steps, I was able to install FreeIPA server with a
3rd-party signed Certificate Authority. Please let me known if you
have issues with those instructions,
Flo.
Awesome!
Flo, your instructions were perfect! I exported the certs and during the
ipa-server-install I see the certs being displayed on the screen then
"Process finished, return code=0, so they are accepted on resuming the
installation. The install fails with a LDAP error but I believe it to be
unrelated to the exported certs. May be a result of my earlier thrashing?
I will recover from a snapshot and begin again. If problems persist, I
will send another request for help for it is probably unrelated to the
certificates.
You got me one step closer. Thank you!
Debug shows:
# pa-server-install --external-cert-file=ipa.cert
--external-cert-file=dogtagca.cert
..
ipa : DEBUG Starting external process
ipa : DEBUG args=/usr/sbin/pkispawn -s CA -f /tmp/tmpDVXaWo
ipa : DEBUG Process finished, *return code=1*
ipa : DEBUG stdout=Log file:
/var/log/pki/pki-ca-spawn.20160803103307.log
Loading deployment configuration from /tmp/tmpDVXaWo.
*ERROR: Unable to access directory server: Can't contact LDAP server*
ipa : DEBUG stderr=
ipa.ipaserver.install.cainstance.CAInstance: CRITICAL Failed to
configure CA instance: Command '/usr/sbin/pkispawn -s CA -f
/tmp/tmpDVXaWo' returned non-zero exit status 1
ipa.ipaserver.install.cainstance.CAInstance: CRITICAL See the
installation logs and the following files/directories for more information:
ipa.ipaserver.install.cainstance.CAInstance: CRITICAL
/var/log/pki/pki-tomcat
ipa : DEBUG Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/service.py",
line 447, in start_creation
run_step(full_msg, method)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/service.py",
line 437, in run_step
method()
File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/cainstance.py", line
579, in __spawn_instance
DogtagInstance.spawn_instance(self, cfg_file)
File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/dogtaginstance.py",
line 181, in spawn_instance
self.handle_setup_error(e)
File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/dogtaginstance.py",
line 421, in handle_setup_error
raise RuntimeError("%s configuration failed." % self.subsystem)
RuntimeError: CA configuration failed.
..
Hi Richard,
not sure if this is related, but there is a bug with recent revisions of
Dogtag which results in failure of CA installation. See IPA ticket 6155
[1] and Dogtag ticket 2403 [2]. A workaround is to downgrade the
packages resteasy-xx because version 3.0.17 from updates-testing
prevents the installation (but 3.0.6.11 is OK):
# dnf downgrade resteasy-atom-provider resteasy-client resteasy-core
resteasy-jackson-provider resteasy-jaxb-provider --allowerasing
[1] https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/6155
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/pki/ticket/2403
Flo.
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