[Fedora-directory-users] Console SSL Problem

Tue Nov 28 17:39:07 UTC 2006

Firstly, thanks for your help. Responding inline below -

Richard Megginson wrote:
> Nicholas Byrne wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> With FDS 1.0.2, I've followed the configuration howto guide lines to 
>> setup the Directory Server to use SSL (as per my post a few days ago) 
>> however after configuring the Administration Server and Console to 
>> use SSL as well i've run into trouble. The directory server alone 
>> works fine with SSL.
>>
>> The reason i'm trying to get Admin and console working in SSL is so i 
>> can setup a secure windows sync agreement, without this all i can do 
>> is setup a insecure sync agreement.
> But you don't have to get Admin and console working with SSL in order 
> to set up a windows sync agreement with SSL.  Do the docs say you have 
> to do this?  If so, where?
No the docs don't say that explicitly but when setting up a windows sync 
agreement it doesn't give you the option of changing the supplier - it 
is set to "ds01.tech:389". The Windows side of the connection is fine as 
i can specify the connection details. I was following the guide at 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/7.1/sync.html#2859728 
and the image under "step 6" indicates the supplier should be configured 
as port 636.

I am new to this, so i may have got confused but i thought passwords 
won't be syncronised unless the FDS supplier and the Windows AD Server 
are set to use SSL/636. I also realise password changes won't be synced 
unless passsync is installed and configured on the AD side, but right 
now thats not necessary as i just want to get basics working.

>>
>> The console will not display anything (absolutely no screen or 
>> anything) after entering password and clicking OK in the 
>> authentication dialog. There are no messages in the console i started 
>> it on.
> startconsole -D will give you debug information, and startconsole -D 9 
> will give you everything.
>>
>> Before i configured the SSL on the admin server and console it was 
>> working correctly and displayed the normal Admin server/Directory 
>> Server screens.
>>
>> The console which i'm running using (i also tried admin user):
>>
>> startconsole -u "cn=Directory Manager" -a https://ds01.tech:59910 -x 
>> nologo
>>
>> I turned loglevel to debug in the admin server and this is what i see:
>>
>> [Tue Nov 28 14:22:46 2006] [info] Connection to child 30 established 
>> (server ds01.tech:443, client 10.170.99.22)
>> [Tue Nov 28 14:22:47 2006] [notice] [client 10.170.99.22] 
>> admserv_host_ip_check: ap_get_remote_host could not resolve 10.170.99.22
>> [Tue Nov 28 14:22:47 2006] [info] Initial (No.1) HTTPS request 
>> received for child 30 (server ds01.tech:443)
>> [Tue Nov 28 14:22:47 2006] [debug] mod_admserv.c(2518): [client 
>> 10.170.99.22] checking user cache for: cn=Directory Manager
>> [Tue Nov 28 14:22:47 2006] [debug] mod_admserv.c(2525): [client 
>> 10.170.99.22] not in cache, trying DS
>> [Tue Nov 28 14:22:47 2006] [debug] mod_admserv.c(1480): [client 
>> 10.170.99.22] admserv_check_authz: request for uri 
>> [/admin-serv/authenticate]
>> [Tue Nov 28 14:22:47 2006] [notice] [client 10.170.99.22] 
>> admserv_check_authz(): passing [/admin-serv/authenticate] to the 
>> userauth handler
>> [Tue Nov 28 14:22:47 2006] [info] Connection to child 30 closed 
>> (server ds01.tech:443, client 10.170.99.22)
> This looks ok, except for the log shows port 443 and you are using 
> port 59910.
Is there a way to fix this? If i'm using https that implies 443 but 
specifying the port 59910, which has precedence - i assume the the port. 
If i use http and port 59910 the console with debug shows the server 
fails to respond:

CommManager> New CommRecord (http://ds01.tech:59910/admin-serv/authenticate)
http://ds01.tech:59910/[0:0] open> Ready
http://ds01.tech:59910/[0:0] accept> 
http://ds01.tech:59910/admin-serv/authenticate
http://ds01.tech:59910/[0:0] send> GET  \
http://ds01.tech:59910/[0:0] send> /admin-serv/authenticate \
http://ds01.tech:59910/[0:0] send>  HTTP/1.0
http://ds01.tech:59910/[0:0] send> Host: ds01.tech:59910
http://ds01.tech:59910/[0:0] send> Connection: Keep-Alive
http://ds01.tech:59910/[0:0] send> User-Agent: Fedora-Management-Console/1.0
http://ds01.tech:59910/[0:0] send> Accept-Language: en
http://ds01.tech:59910/[0:0] send> Authorization: Basic  \
http://ds01.tech:59910/[0:0] send> <removed> \
http://ds01.tech:59910/[0:0] send>
http://ds01.tech:59910/[0:0] send>

With https, i get to through the authentication stage at least.
>>
>> In the slapd log i see:
>>
>> [28/Nov/2006:14:22:46 +0000] conn=51 fd=65 slot=65 SSL connection 
>> from 10.170.99.22 to 10.103.20.21
>> [28/Nov/2006:14:22:46 +0000] conn=51 SSL 128-bit RC4
>> [28/Nov/2006:14:22:46 +0000] conn=51 op=0 BIND dn="cn=Directory 
>> Manager" method=128 version=3
>> [28/Nov/2006:14:22:46 +0000] conn=51 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=97 
>> nentries=0 etime=0 dn="cn=directory manager"
> This looks like the /admin-serv/authenticate request as logged in the 
> admin server.
>> [28/Nov/2006:14:22:46 +0000] conn=52 fd=64 slot=64 SSL connection 
>> from 10.170.99.22 to 10.103.20.21
>> [28/Nov/2006:14:32:04 +0000] conn=52 op=-1 fd=64 closed - Encountered 
>> end of file.
> This looks like the console is attempting to use ldap on the ldaps 
> port.  I think you need to tell the console to use SSL when talking to 
> this directory server - 
> http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:SSL#Using_the_command_line
I ran through that part of the howto, here is the output below and as 
you can see  " nsServerSecurity" is set to on (i assume this is the bit 
you mean?) -

[nick at nblap ~]$ ldapsearch -x -D "cn=directory manager" -W -b 
o=netscaperoot "nsServerID=slapd-ds01"
Enter LDAP Password:
# extended LDIF
#
# LDAPv3
# base <o=netscaperoot> with scope subtree
# filter: nsServerID=slapd-ds01
# requesting: ALL
#

# slapd-ds01, Fedora Directory Server, Server Group, ds01.tech, tech, 
Netscap
 eRoot
dn: cn=slapd-ds01, cn=Fedora Directory Server, cn=Server Group, 
cn=ds01.tech,
 ou=tech, o=NetscapeRoot
objectClass: netscapeServer
objectClass: nsDirectoryServer
objectClass: nsResourceRef
objectClass: nsConfig
objectClass: groupOfUniqueNames
objectClass: top
nsServerSecurity: on
nsServerID: slapd-ds01
nsBindDN: cn=Directory Manager
nsBaseDN: dc=tech
serverRoot: /opt/fedora-ds
nsServerPort: 389
nsSecureServerPort: 636
serverProductName: Directory Server (ds01)
serverVersionNumber: 1.0.2
installationTimeStamp: 20061121103832Z
nsSuiteSpotUser: ldap
serverHostName: ds01.tech
cn: slapd-ds01
uniqueMember: cn=slapd-ds01, cn=Fedora Directory Server, cn=Server 
Group, cn=d
 s01.tech, ou=tech, o=NetscapeRoot
uniqueMember: cn=admin-serv-ds01, cn=Fedora Administration Server, 
cn=Server G
 roup, cn=ds01.tech, ou=tech, o=NetscapeRoot
userPassword:: <removed>

>>
>> Anyone know how i can fix this? Thanks very much
>> Nick
>>
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