[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 998 certmonger restarts services on renewal
Martin Kosek
mkosek at redhat.com
Fri Apr 6 08:22:27 UTC 2012
On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 16:47 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Rob Crittenden wrote:
> > Martin Kosek wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 10:45 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> >>> Rob Crittenden wrote:
> >>>> Martin Kosek wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 15:36 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> >>>>>> Rob Crittenden wrote:
> >>>>>>> Martin Kosek wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 17:40 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> Certmonger will currently automatically renew server
> >>>>>>>>> certificates but
> >>>>>>>>> doesn't restart the services so you can still end up with expired
> >>>>>>>>> certificates if you services never restart.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> This patch registers are restart command with certmonger so the
> >>>>>>>>> IPA
> >>>>>>>>> services will automatically be restarted to get the updated cert.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Easy to test. Install IPA then resubmit the current server
> >>>>>>>>> certs and
> >>>>>>>>> watch the services restart:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> # ipa-getcert list
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Find the ID for either your dirsrv or httpd instance
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> # ipa-getcert resubmit -i<ID>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Watch /var/log/httpd/error_log or
> >>>>>>>>> /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-INSTANCE/errors
> >>>>>>>>> to see the service restart.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> rob
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> What about current instances - can we/do we want to update
> >>>>>>>> certmonger
> >>>>>>>> tracking so that their instances are restarted as well?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Anyway, I found few issues SELinux issues with the patch:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> 1) # rpm -Uvh freeipa-*
> >>>>>>>> Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
> >>>>>>>> 1:freeipa-python ########################################### [ 20%]
> >>>>>>>> 2:freeipa-client ########################################### [ 40%]
> >>>>>>>> 3:freeipa-admintools ########################################### [
> >>>>>>>> 60%]
> >>>>>>>> 4:freeipa-server ########################################### [ 80%]
> >>>>>>>> /usr/bin/chcon: failed to change context of
> >>>>>>>> `/usr/lib64/ipa/certmonger' to
> >>>>>>>> `unconfined_u:object_r:certmonger_unconfined_exec_t:s0': Invalid
> >>>>>>>> argument
> >>>>>>>> /usr/bin/chcon: failed to change context of
> >>>>>>>> `/usr/lib64/ipa/certmonger/restart_dirsrv' to
> >>>>>>>> `unconfined_u:object_r:certmonger_unconfined_exec_t:s0': Invalid
> >>>>>>>> argument
> >>>>>>>> /usr/bin/chcon: failed to change context of
> >>>>>>>> `/usr/lib64/ipa/certmonger/restart_httpd' to
> >>>>>>>> `unconfined_u:object_r:certmonger_unconfined_exec_t:s0': Invalid
> >>>>>>>> argument
> >>>>>>>> warning: %post(freeipa-server-2.1.90GIT5b895af-0.fc16.x86_64)
> >>>>>>>> scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> >>>>>>>> 5:freeipa-server-selinux
> >>>>>>>> ###########################################
> >>>>>>>> [100%]
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> certmonger_unconfined_exec_t type was unknown with my selinux
> >>>>>>>> policy:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> selinux-policy-3.10.0-80.fc16.noarch
> >>>>>>>> selinux-policy-targeted-3.10.0-80.fc16.noarch
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> If we need a higher SELinux version, we should bump the required
> >>>>>>>> package
> >>>>>>>> version spec file.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Yeah, waiting on it to be backported.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> 2) Change of SELinux context with /usr/bin/chcon is temporary until
> >>>>>>>> restorecon or system relabel occurs. I think we should make it
> >>>>>>>> persistent and enforce this type in our SELinux policy and
> >>>>>>>> rather call
> >>>>>>>> restorecon instead of chcon
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> That's a good idea, why didn't I think of that :-(
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Ah, now I remember, it will be handled by selinux-policy. I would
> >>>>>> have
> >>>>>> used restorecon here but since the policy isn't there yet this seemed
> >>>>>> like a good idea.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'm trying to find out the status of this new policy, it may only
> >>>>>> make
> >>>>>> it into F-17.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> rob
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ok. But if this policy does not go in F-16 and if we want this fix in
> >>>>> F16 release too, I guess we would have to implement both approaches in
> >>>>> our spec file:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 1) When on F16, include SELinux policy for restart scripts + run
> >>>>> restorecon
> >>>>> 2) When on F17, do not include the SELinux policy (+ run restorecon)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Martin
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Won't work without updated selinux-policy. Without the permission for
> >>>> certmonger to execute the commands things will still fail (just in
> >>>> really non-obvious and far in the future ways).
> >>>>
> >>>> It looks like this is fixed in F-17 selinux-policy-3.10.0-107.
> >>>>
> >>>> rob
> >>>
> >>> Updated patch which works on F-17.
> >>>
> >>> rob
> >>
> >> What about F-16? The restart scripts won't work with enabled enforcing
> >> and will raise AVCs. Maybe we really need to deliver our own SELinux
> >> policy allowing it on F-16.
> >
> > Right, I don't see this working on F-16. I don't really want to carry
> > this type of policy. It goes beyond marking a few files as certmonger_t,
> > it is going to let certmonger execute arbitrary scripts. This is best
> > left to the SELinux team who understand the consequences better.
> >
> >>
> >> I also found an issue with the restart scripts:
> >>
> >> 1) restart_dirsrv: this won't work with systemd:
> >>
> >> # /sbin/service dirsrv restart
> >> Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart dirsrv.service
> >> Failed to issue method call: Unit dirsrv.service failed to load: No such
> >> file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dirsrv.service'
> >> for details.
> >
> > Wouldn't work so hot for sysV either as we'd be restarting all
> > instances. I'll take a look.
> >
> >> We would need to pass an instance of IPA dirsrv for this to work.
> >>
> >> 2) restart_httpd:
> >> Is reload enough for httpd to pull a new certificate? Don't we need a
> >> full restart? If reload is enough, I think the command should be named
> >> reload_httpd
> >
> > Yes, it causes the modules to be reloaded which will reload the NSS
> > database, that's all we need. I named it this way for consistency. I can
> > rename it, though I doubt it would cause any confusion either way.
> >
> > rob
>
> revised patch.
>
> rob
Thanks, this is better, dirsrv restart is now fixed. I still have few
issues:
1) Wrong command for httpd certs (should be reload_httpd):
- db.track_server_cert(nickname, self.principal,
db.passwd_fname)
+ db.track_server_cert(nickname, self.principal,
db.passwd_fname, 'restart_httpd')
- db.track_server_cert("Server-Cert", self.principal,
db.passwd_fname)
+ db.track_server_cert("Server-Cert", self.principal,
db.passwd_fname, 'restart_httpd')
2) What about current certmonger monitored certs? We can use the command
Nalin suggested to modify existing monitored certs to set up a restart
command:
# ipa-getcert list
...
Request ID '20120404083924':
status: MONITORING
stuck: no
key pair storage:
type=NSSDB,location='/etc/httpd/alias',nickname='Server-Cert',token='NSS
Certificate DB',pinfile='/etc/httpd/alias/pwdfile.txt'
certificate:
type=NSSDB,location='/etc/httpd/alias',nickname='Server-Cert',token='NSS
Certificate DB'
CA: IPA
issuer: CN=Certificate Authority,O=IDM.LAB.BOS.REDHAT.COM
subject: CN=vm-079.idm.lab.bos.redhat.com,O=IDM.LAB.BOS.REDHAT.COM
expires: 2014-04-05 08:39:24 UTC
eku: id-kp-serverAuth,id-kp-clientAuth
command:
track: yes
auto-renew: yes
# ipa-getcert start-tracking -i 20120404083924 -C /usr/lib64/ipa/certmonger/reload_httpd
Request "20120404083924" modified.
# ipa-getcert list
Request ID '20120404083924':
status: MONITORING
stuck: no
key pair storage:
type=NSSDB,location='/etc/httpd/alias',nickname='Server-Cert',token='NSS
Certificate DB',pinfile='/etc/httpd/alias/pwdfile.txt'
certificate:
type=NSSDB,location='/etc/httpd/alias',nickname='Server-Cert',token='NSS
Certificate DB'
CA: IPA
issuer: CN=Certificate Authority,O=IDM.LAB.BOS.REDHAT.COM
subject: CN=vm-079.idm.lab.bos.redhat.com,O=IDM.LAB.BOS.REDHAT.COM
expires: 2014-04-05 08:39:24 UTC
eku: id-kp-serverAuth,id-kp-clientAuth
command: /usr/lib64/ipa/certmonger/reload_httpd
track: yes
auto-renew: yes
3) The new dirsrv service restart command does not work either with
systemd:
# service dirsrv restart IDM-LAB-BOS-REDHAT-COM
I think the approach here would be to take advantage of our system
service management abstraction that ipactl uses. It will then work well
with SysV, systemd or any other future configurations or ports to other
Linux distributions. Example of the script which restarts the required
instance:
# cat /tmp/restart_dirsrv
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
from ipapython import services as ipaservices
try:
instance = sys.argv[1]
except IndexError:
instance = ""
dirsrv = ipaservices.knownservices.dirsrv
dirsrv.restart(instance)
# /tmp/restart_dirsrv IDM-LAB-BOS-REDHAT-COM
Martin
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