[Freeipa-users] weak and null ciphers detected on ldap ports

Rich Megginson rmeggins at redhat.com
Wed Oct 8 04:36:37 UTC 2014


On 10/07/2014 10:15 PM, Murty, Ajeet (US - Arlington) wrote:
> Any ideas on what else I can try here?

Please file a ticket.

> Also, can we expect the new IPA and DS to be available in the CentOS/YUM repository in the next few weeks/months?
>
> Thanks again for all your help.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Murty, Ajeet (US - Arlington)
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 1:21 PM
> To: Alexander Bokovoy
> Cc: freeipa-users at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] weak and null ciphers detected on ldap ports
>
> I removed the new lines, looks like this now -
>
> modifyTimestamp: 20140915221826Z
> nsSSL3Ciphers: -rsa_null_md5,+rsa_rc4_128_md5,+rsa_rc4_40_md5,+rsa_rc2_40_md5,
>   +rsa_des_sha,+rsa_fips_des_sha,+rsa_3des_sha,+rsa_fips_3des_sha,+fortezza,+fo
>   rtezza_rc4_128_sha,-fortezza_null,+tls_rsa_export1024_with_rc4_56_sha,+tls_rs
>   a_export1024_with_des_cbc_sha
> numSubordinates: 1
>
> I am still seeing the null ciphers in my scan results.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Bokovoy [mailto:abokovoy at redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 1:08 PM
> To: Murty, Ajeet (US - Arlington)
> Cc: Rob Crittenden; Rich Megginson; freeipa-users at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] weak and null ciphers detected on ldap ports
>
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Murty, Ajeet (US - Arlington) wrote:
>> I shutdown IPA and modified both dse ldif files to look like this -
>>
>>         nsSSL3Ciphers: -rsa_null_md5,+rsa_rc4_128_md5,+rsa_rc4_40_md5,+rsa_rc2_40_md5,
>>          +rsa_des_sha,+rsa_fips_des_sha,+rsa_3des_sha,+rsa_fips_3des_sha,+fortezza,+fo
>>          rtezza_rc4_128_sha,-fortezza_null,+tls_rsa_export1024_with_rc4_56_sha,+tls_rs
>>          a_export1024_with_des_cbc_sha
>>
>>
>> Then, when I try to start up IPA, I get this error message -
>>
>>         [root]# /etc/init.d/ipa start
>>         Starting Directory Service
>>         Starting dirsrv:
>>                 EXAMPLE-COM...[07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] - str2entry_dupcheck: entry has no dn
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] - The entry [nsSSL3Ciphers] in the configfile /etc/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-COM/dse.ldif was empty or could not be parsed
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] - str2entry_dupcheck: entry has no dn
> The lines above suggest that you actually separated nsSSL3Ciphers line
> from the entry itself. At least in my case it looks like this:
>
> dn: cn=encryption,cn=config
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: nsEncryptionConfig
> cn: encryption
> nsSSLSessionTimeout: 0
> nsSSLClientAuth: allowed
> nsSSL2: off
> nsSSL3: off
> creatorsName: cn=server,cn=plugins,cn=config
> modifiersName: cn=directory manager
> createTimestamp: 20141001151245Z
> modifyTimestamp: 20141001151430Z
> nsSSL3Ciphers: +all
> allowWeakCipher: off
> numSubordinates: 1
>
> note that it is part of cn=encryption,cn=config entry. You cannot
> separate attributes within the entry with empty lines because empty line
> finishes current entry and starts another one.
>
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] - The entry [numSubordinates] in the configfile /etc/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-COM/dse.ldif was empty or could not be parsed
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] - str2entry_dupcheck: entry has no dn
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] dse_read_one_file - Parsing entry (lineno: 116) in file /etc/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-COM/dse.ldif failed.
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] dse_read_one_file - Invalid section [nsSSL3Ciphers: -rsa_null_md5,+rsa_rc4_128_md5,+rsa_rc4_40_md5,+rsa_rc2_40_md5,
>>          +rsa_des_sha,+rsa_fips_des_sha,+rsa_3des_sha,+rsa_fips_3des_sha,+fortezza,+fo
>>          rtezza_rc4_128_sha,-fortezza_null,+tls_rsa_export1024_with_rc4_56_sha,+tls_rs
>>          a_export1024_with ...]
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] - str2entry_dupcheck: entry has no dn
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] dse_read_one_file - Parsing entry (lineno: 121) in file /etc/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-COM/dse.ldif failed.
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] dse_read_one_file - Invalid section [numSubordinates: 1]
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] dse - Could not load config file [dse.ldif]
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] dse - Please edit the file to correct the reported problems and then restart the server.
>>                                                                                                                            [FAILED]
>>                 PKI-IPA...[07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] - str2entry_dupcheck: entry has no dn
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] - The entry [nsSSL3Ciphers] in the configfile /etc/dirsrv/slapd-PKI-IPA/dse.ldif was empty or could not be parsed
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] - str2entry_dupcheck: entry has no dn
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] - The entry [numSubordinates] in the configfile /etc/dirsrv/slapd-PKI-IPA/dse.ldif was empty or could not be parsed
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] - str2entry_dupcheck: entry has no dn
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] dse_read_one_file - Parsing entry (lineno: 110) in file /etc/dirsrv/slapd-PKI-IPA/dse.ldif failed.
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] dse_read_one_file - Invalid section [nsSSL3Ciphers: -rsa_null_md5,+rsa_rc4_128_md5,+rsa_rc4_40_md5,+rsa_rc2_40_md5,
>>          +rsa_des_sha,+rsa_fips_des_sha,+rsa_3des_sha,+rsa_fips_3des_sha,+fortezza,+fo
>>          rtezza_rc4_128_sha,-fortezza_null,+tls_rsa_export1024_with_rc4_56_sha,+tls_rs
>>          a_export1024_with ...]
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] - str2entry_dupcheck: entry has no dn
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] dse_read_one_file - Parsing entry (lineno: 115) in file /etc/dirsrv/slapd-PKI-IPA/dse.ldif failed.
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] dse_read_one_file - Invalid section [numSubordinates: 1]
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] dse - Could not load config file [dse.ldif]
>>         [07/Oct/2014:12:49:59 -0400] dse - Please edit the file to correct the reported problems and then restart the server.
>>                                                                                                                            [FAILED]
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alexander Bokovoy [mailto:abokovoy at redhat.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 12:43 PM
>> To: Murty, Ajeet (US - Arlington)
>> Cc: Rob Crittenden; Rich Megginson; freeipa-users at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] weak and null ciphers detected on ldap ports
>>
>> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Murty, Ajeet (US - Arlington) wrote:
>>> I was shutting down IPA before making any changes -
>>>
>>> 1. Shutdown IPA -
>>>
>>> [root]# /etc/init.d/ipa stop
>>> Stopping CA Service
>>> Stopping pki-ca:                                           [  OK  ]
>>> Stopping HTTP Service
>>> Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
>>> Stopping MEMCACHE Service
>>> Stopping ipa_memcached:                                    [  OK  ]
>>> Stopping KPASSWD Service
>>> Stopping Kerberos 5 Admin Server:                          [  OK  ]
>>> Stopping KDC Service
>>> Stopping Kerberos 5 KDC:                                   [  OK  ]
>>> Stopping Directory Service
>>> Shutting down dirsrv:
>>>     EXAMPLE-COM...                                         [  OK  ]
>>>     PKI-IPA...                                             [  OK  ]
>>>
>>> 2. Edit 'dse.ldif' files to remove null ciphers -
>>>
>>> nsSSL3Ciphers: +rsa_rc4_128_md5,+rsa_rc4_40_md5,+rsa_rc2_40_md5,+rsa_des_sha,+
>>> rsa_fips_des_sha,+rsa_3des_sha,+rsa_fips_3des_sha,+fortezza,+fortezza_rc4_128
>>> _sha,+tls_rsa_export1024_with_rc4_56_sha,+tls_rsa_export1024_with_des_cbc_sha
>>> numSubordinates: 1
>> I think Ludwig gave a good suggestion -- instead of removing them from
>> the list, prefix the *_null ciphers with -, i.e. -rsa_null_md5, -fortezza_null.
>> The way nsSSL3Ciphers attribute works, is by modifying default NSS
>> ciphers list, with + and - to add and remove the ciphers accordingly.
>>
>> --
>> / Alexander Bokovoy




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