[Freeipa-users] IPA server having cert issues

Bret Wortman bret.wortman at damascusgrp.com
Tue Apr 26 13:26:24 UTC 2016


On our non-CA IPA server, this is happening, in case it's related and 
illustrative:

# ipa host-del zw113.private.net
ipa: ERROR: Certificate format error: (SEC_ERROR_LEGACY_DATABASE) The 
certificate/key database is in an old, unsupported format.
#

On 04/26/2016 09:24 AM, Bret Wortman wrote:
> I rolled the date on the IPA server in question back to April 1 and 
> ran "ipa-cacert-manage renew", which said it completed successfully. I 
> rolled the date back to current and tried restarting ipa using ipactl 
> stop && ipactl start, but no joy. No more ca renewal errors, but right 
> after the pause I see this in /var/log/messages:
>
> systemd: kadmin.service: main process exited, code=exited, 
> status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
> systemd: Unit kadmin.service entered failed state.
> systemd: kadmin.service failed.
>
> I rebooted the server just in case, and it's still getting stuck at 
> the same place. ipa-otpd doesn't get around to starting.
>
>
> Bret
>
> After the several-minutes-long pause after ipactl start outputs 
> "Starting pki-tomcatd Service", I get the
>
> On 04/26/2016 08:14 AM, Bret Wortman wrote:
>> I have an IPA server on a private network which has apparently run 
>> into certificate issues this morning. It's been running without issue 
>> for quite a while, and is on 4.1.4-1 on fedora 21.
>>
>> This morning, the gui started giving:
>>
>> IPA Error 907: NetworkError with description "cannot connect to 
>> 'https://zsipa.private.net:443/ca/agent/ca/displayBySerial': 
>> (SSL_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERRT_ALERT) SSL peer rejected your certificate as 
>> expired."
>>
>> I dug into the logs and after trying to restart ipa using ipactl, 
>> there was a length pause, then:
>>
>> dogtag-ipa-ca-renew-agent-submit: Updated certificate not available
>> certmonger: Certificate named "ipaCert" in token "NSS Certificate DB" 
>> in database "/etc/httpd/alias" is no longer valid.
>> dogtag-ipa-ca-renew-agent-submit: Updated certificate not available
>> certmonger: Certificate named "ocspSigningCert cert-pki-ca" in token 
>> "NSS Certificate DB" in database "/etc/pki/pki-tomcat/alias" is no 
>> longer valid.
>> dogtag-ipa-ca-renew-agent-submit: Updated certificate not available.
>> named-pkcs11[3437]: client 192.168.208.205#57832: update 
>> '208.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN' denied
>>
>> and then things start shutting down. I can't start ipa at all using 
>> ipactl.
>>
>> So at present, our DNS is down. Authentication should work for a 
>> while, but I'd like to get this working again as quickly as possible. 
>> Any ideas? I deal with certificates so infrequently (like only when 
>> something like this happens) that I'm not sure where to start.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> *Bret Wortman*
>> /Coming soon to Kickstarter.../
>> <http://wrapbuddies.co/>
>> http://wrapbuddies.co/
>>
>>
>

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