[Freeipa-users] openldap to ipa

Johnathan Phan john at ox-consulting.com
Wed Jan 23 10:05:44 UTC 2013


For record sake. This issue was resolved.

I resolved the issue by following the following guidance provided in the
following bug report.

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3364


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Johnathan Phan <john at ox-consulting.com>wrote:

> Hi Rcrit,
>
> As Outlined in the IRC channel. Please find the ldap.conf from the open
> ldap server below.
>
> URI ldap://ldap.example.com ldap://ldap1.example.com
> BASE dc=example,dc=com
> TLS_CACERT /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
>
> I then copy the file /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt from the openldap
> server over to the test IPA server and on the IPA server I run the
> following command.
>
> certutil -A -d /etc/httpd/alias -n 'openldap CA' -t CT,, -a -i
> ca-bundle.crt
>
> The openldap server is using a certificate signed by a CA. The IPA server
> is using the self signed certificate it generated when starting up.
>
> I still get the error after adding the CA bundle for openldap server to
> the apache cert db on IPA server.
>
> After explaining all this, I feel that the problem lies with the self
> signed cert on the IPA server. Can I confirm with someone the process in
> which the migration of data occurs?
>
> I gather the it something like this.
>
> 1 >IPA binds/creates a connection to the remote server via SSL/TSL and
> creates a connection
> 2> It then binds to a socket locally
> 3> Then contacts the apache server for some reason (no idea why this is
> contacting apache on 443?)
>
> Regards
>
> John
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com>wrote:
>
>> Johnathan Phan wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone know the details of the low level system steps for the migration
>>> script to work? so I can try and backwards engineer or troubleshoot each
>>> system as I go along so I can actually migrate the data from openldap to
>>> ipa?
>>>
>>
>> The migration is taking place in the context of the web server. So any
>> trust needs to be added to /etc/httpd/alias (and the httpd service
>> restarted). It needs to trust the signer of the remote LDAP server. What I
>> don't know is how you add trust in NSS for a self-signed server
>> certificate. You might be best off issuing new SSL certs for your openldap
>> server which uses a CA to issue the server cert in order to perform the
>> migration.
>>
>> rob
>>
>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Johnathan Phan <john at ox-consulting.com
>>> <mailto:john at ox-consulting.com**>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi Aquino,
>>>
>>>     thanks for the input, however. There is a CRT in there already and
>>>     it was set to allow on both the IPA server and the target openldap
>>>     server.
>>>     the core of the issue seems to be that IPA does not accept the cert
>>>     either locally or remotely as it does not trust it.
>>>
>>>     anyone know how I can troubleshot this. I have reviewed the dirsrv
>>>     logs for ldap and I can't spot anything/.
>>>
>>>     Regards
>>>     John
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 5:55 PM, JR Aquino <JR.Aquino at citrix.com
>>>     <mailto:JR.Aquino at citrix.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Try editing /etc/openldap/ldap.conf:
>>>
>>>         TLS_CACERT      /etc/ipa/ca.crt
>>>         TLS_REQCERT allow
>>>
>>>
>>>         See if that helps
>>>
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>>>
>>>         On Jan 11, 2013, at 8:05 AM, Johnathan Phan
>>>         <john at ox-consulting.com
>>>         <mailto:john at ox-consulting.com**><mailto:john at ox-consulting.**
>>> com <john at ox-consulting.com>
>>>
>>>         <mailto:john at ox-consulting.com**>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Hi There,
>>>
>>>         This is driving me up the wall.
>>>
>>>         I have two servers. 1 is a live openldap/kerberous AAA server
>>>         running on RHEL6. The LDAP service has SSL/TS support. The
>>>         second server is a test environment running on fedora and has
>>>         3.1 IPA installed.
>>>
>>>         As a last step of my POC I need to migrate the users and
>>>         passwords from the LDAP server to IPA server.
>>>
>>>         I ran this command perfectly fine.
>>>
>>>         ipa config-mod --enable-migration=TRUE
>>>
>>>         However the next step was where my issues began.
>>>
>>>         In the end after a lot of IRC communication and troubleshooting
>>>         I now run the following command.
>>>
>>>         ipa migrate-ds --bind-dn="cn=admin,dc=**example,dc=com"
>>>         --user-container="ou=users,ou=**live,dc=example,dc=com"
>>>         --group-container="ou=groups,**ou=live,dc=example,dc=com"
>>>         ldaps://ldap1.live.example.com
>>>         <http://ldap1.live.example.com**><http://ldap1.live.example.**
>>> com/ <http://ldap1.live.example.com/>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         I get the following error.
>>>
>>>         ipa: DEBUG: Caught fault 4203 from server
>>>         http://fedoraipaserver.test.**example.com/ipa/xml<http://fedoraipaserver.test.example.com/ipa/xml>:
>>> Can't contact
>>>         LDAP server: TLS error -8179:Peer's Certificate issuer is not
>>>         recognized.
>>>         ipa: DEBUG: Destroyed connection context.xmlclient
>>>         ipa: ERROR: Can't contact LDAP server: TLS error -8179:Peer's
>>>         Certificate issuer is not recognized.
>>>
>>>         I have summarized that the IPA server does not trust the cert
>>>         served by the openldap or the other way around. Does anyone know
>>>         how to get around this? Or allow me to finish the migration of
>>>         user data.
>>>
>>>         Regards
>>>
>>>         John
>>>
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