[389-users] Recover after installing a bad cert.

[Rich Megginson]

Dumbo Q wrote:
> Of course, it would help if i trusted the intermediate cert.
> certutil -M -t "CT,," -d . -n "UTN-USERFirst-Hardware - AddTrust AB"
> certutil -M -t "CT,," -d . -n "PositiveSSL CA - The USERTRUST Network"
>
>
> After doing this I tried an ldapsearch -H ldaps://....
> ldapsearch worked with no problem.
> My ldap client "Jxplorer"  could not connect however. It complained 
> with the following..
> javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: 
> java.security.cert.CertificateException: Invalid Server Certificate: 
> server certificate could not be verified, and the CA certificate is 
> missing from the certificate chain.
>
> A partial success i guess.
Does Jxplorer have the CA cert?
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Dumbo Q <dumboq at yahoo.com>
> *To:* Ryan Braun [ADS] <ryan.braun at ec.gc.ca>; 
> fedora-directory-users at redhat.com
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 8, 2009 4:57:49 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [389-users] Recover after installing a bad cert.
>
> Thanks that did it.
>
> I just can't seem to get this certificate working.  Here is the most 
> recent way that i have tried.
> cat bundle.crt >> new.crt    ## bundle, being the chain certificates 
> provided by the CA
> cat rhds.crt >> new.crt    ## rhds being the actual cert provided by 
> the CA
> openssl verify new.crt   ## turned out OK
>
> openssl pkcs12 -export -in new.crt -inkey rhds.example.com 
> <http://rhds.example.com.ke>.key  -out rhds.example.com-PSSL.p12
>
> pk12util -i /root/certs/rhds.example.com-PSSL.p12 -d .
> certutil -L -d .
> Certificate Nickname                                         Trust 
> Attributes
>                                                              
> SSL,S/MIME,JAR/XPI
>
>
> rhds.example.com <http://rhds.example.com> - Comodo CA 
> Limited                  u,u,u
> PositiveSSL CA - The USERTRUST Network                       ,,
> UTN-USERFirst-Hardware - AddTrust AB                         ,,
>
>
> Still the same error when i try to use this cert.  Am I doing 
> something wrong?
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Ryan Braun [ADS] <ryan.braun at ec.gc.ca>
> *To:* fedora-directory-users at redhat.com
> *Cc:* Dumbo Q <dumboq at yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 8, 2009 2:50:10 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [389-users] Recover after installing a bad cert.
>
> On July 8, 2009 06:19:55 pm Dumbo Q wrote:
> > I just installed a new ssl certificate using pk12util.  I restarted my
> > dirsrv, and picked the new cert in the dropdown menu under the 
> encryption
> > tab.  I restarted dirsrv to make it take affect.  When I did this, I 
> found
> > that the root certificate was not in redhats/openssls ca-bundle.  I 
> tried
> > importing the intermediate certificate, and I think I just made the 
> problem
> > worse.
> >
> > right now im getting the following.
> >  SSL alert: CERT_VerifyCertificateNow: verify certificate failed for 
> cert
> > rhds.example.com <http://rhds.example.com> - Comodo CA Limited of family
> > cn=RSA,cn=encryption,cn=config (Netscape Portable Runtime error -8179 -
> > Peer's Certificate issuer is not recognized.) [08/Jul/2009:14:18:04 
> -0400]
> > - SSL failure: None of the cipher are valid
> >
> >
> > Now my directory is down completely.  How can I get it to start up 
> without
> > SSL so that I can fix the problem?
>
> Make sure you backup /etc/dirsrv/INSTANCE/dse.ldif
>
> then edit that file and look for
>
> nsslapd-security: on
>
> change to
>
> nsslapd-security: off
>
> save file,  restart service and ssl should be turned off.  Keep in mind
> whatever caused the ssl config to puke in the first place is still 
> there :)
>
> Ryan
>
>
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