** Description changed: [Environment] Bionic python3-httplib2 | 0.9.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2 [Description] maas cli fails to work with apis over https with self-signed certificates due to the lack of disable_ssl_certificate_validation option with python 3.5. [Distribution/Release, Package versions, Platform] cat /etc/lsb-release; dpkg -l | grep maas DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS" ii maas 2.8.2-8577-g.a3e674063-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 all "Metal as a Service" is a physical cloud and IPAM ii maas-cli 2.8.2-8577-g.a3e674063-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 all MAAS client and command-line interface ii maas-common 2.8.2-8577-g.a3e674063-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 all MAAS server common files ii maas-dhcp 2.8.2-8577-g.a3e674063-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 all MAAS DHCP server ii maas-proxy 2.8.2-8577-g.a3e674063-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 all MAAS Caching Proxy ii maas-rack-controller 2.8.2-8577-g.a3e674063-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 all Rack Controller for MAAS ii maas-region-api 2.8.2-8577-g.a3e674063-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 all Region controller API service for MAAS ii maas-region-controller 2.8.2-8577-g.a3e674063-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 all Region Controller for MAAS ii python3-django-maas 2.8.2-8577-g.a3e674063-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 all MAAS server Django web framework (Python 3) ii python3-maas-client 2.8.2-8577-g.a3e674063-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 all MAAS python API client (Python 3) ii python3-maas-provisioningserver 2.8.2-8577-g.a3e674063-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 all MAAS server provisioning libraries (Python 3) [Steps to Reproduce] - prepare a maas server(installed by packages for me and the customer). it doesn't have to be HA to reproduce - prepare a set of certificate, key and ca-bundle - place a new conf[2] in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled and `sudo systemctl restart nginx` - add the ca certificates to the host sudo mkdir /usr/share/ca-certificates/extra sudo cp -v ca-bundle.crt /usr/share/ca-certificates/extra/ dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates - login with a new profile over https url - when not added the ca-bundle to the trusted ca cert store, it fails to login and '--insecure' flag also doesn't work[3] [Known Workarounds] None [Test] # Note even though this change only affects Python3 # I tested it with Python2 with no issues and was able to connect. Also please make note of the 2 packages. One is for Python2 the other Python3 Python2 ===> python-httplib2_0.9.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.3_all.deb Python3 ===> python3-httplib2_0.9.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.3_all.deb helpful urls: https://maas.io/docs/deb/2.8/cli/installation https://maas.io/docs/deb/2.8/cli/configuration-journey https://maas.io/docs/deb/2.8/ui/configuration-journey # create bionic VM/lxc container lxc launch ubuntu:bionic lp1906720 # get source code from repo pull-lp-source python-httplib2 bionic # install maas-cli apt-get install maas-cli # install maas server apt-get install maas # init maas sudo maas init # answer questions # generate self signed cert and key openssl req -newkey rsa:4096 -x509 -sha256 -days 60 -nodes -out localhost.crt -keyout localhost.key # add certs sudo cp -v test.crt /usr/share/ca-certificates/extra/ # add new cert to list sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates # select yes with spacebar # save # create api key files touch api_key touch api-key-file # remove any packages with this # or this python3-httplib2 apt-cache search python-httplib2 apt-get remove python-httplib2 apt-get remove python3-httplib2 # create 2 admin users sudo maas createadmin testadmin sudo maas createadmin secureadmin # generate maas api keys sudo maas apikey --username=testadmin > api_key sudo maas apikey --username=secureadmin > api-key-file # make sure you can login to maas-cli without TLS # by running this script # this is for the non-tls user # this goes into a script called maas-login.sh touch maas-login.sh sudo chmod +rwx maas-login.sh ---- #!/bin/sh PROFILE=testadmin API_KEY_FILE=/home/ubuntu/api_key API_SERVER=127.0.0.1:5240 MAAS_URL=http://$API_SERVER/MAAS maas login $PROFILE $MAAS_URL - < $API_KEY_FILE ---- sudo chmod +rwx https-maas.sh # another script called https-maas.sh # for the tls user ---- #!/bin/sh PROFILE=secureadmin API_KEY_FILE=/home/ubuntu/api-key-file API_SERVER=127.0.0.1 MAAS_URL=https://$API_SERVER/MAAS maas login --insecure $PROFILE $MAAS_URL - < $API_KEY_FILE ---- # try to login ./maas-login.sh cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled sudo touch maas-https-default #example nginx config for maas https server { listen 443 ssl http2; server_name _; ssl_certificate /home/ubuntu/localhost.crt; ssl_certificate_key /home/ubuntu/localhost.key; location / { proxy_pass http://localhost:5240; include /etc/nginx/proxy_params; } location /MAAS/ws { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5240/MAAS/ws; proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade"; } } # create link sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/maas-https-default /etc/nginx/sites-enabled # look at errors cat /var/log/maas/regiond.log cat regiond.log | grep "Python-http" *i didn't see any 404's though 2020-12-15 13:24:48 regiond: [info] 127.0.0.1 GET /MAAS/api/2.0/users/?op=whoami HTTP/1.1 --> 200 OK (referrer: -; agent: Python-httplib2/0.9.2 (gzip)) 2020-12-15 13:24:48 regiond: [info] 127.0.0.1 GET /MAAS/api/2.0/describe/ HTTP/1.1 --> 200 OK (referrer: -; agent: Python-httplib2/0.9.2 (gzip)) 2020-12-15 14:24:46 regiond: [info] 127.0.0.1 GET /MAAS/api/2.0/describe/ HTTP/1.0 --> 200 OK (referrer: -; agent: Python-httplib2/0.9.2 (gzip)) [Where Issues Could Occur] - They moved the if check for using `--insecure` when connecting further - down. - - This issue is going into holding as we need to discuss if MAAS can - monkey patch it. + Potential issues could happen if we disable certificate validation for all ssl interactions, any connection https related. + This will not break exsiting python3 versions. + This does not affect any python2x versions.
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