[Freeipa-users] I think I lost my CA...

Bret Wortman bret.wortman at damascusgrp.com
Wed Apr 26 14:33:43 UTC 2017


So I can see my certs using cert-find, but can't get details using 
cert-show or add new ones using cert-request.

    # ipa cert-find
    :
    ------------------------------
    Number of entries returned 385
    ------------------------------
    # ipa cert-show 895
    ipa: ERROR: Certificate operation cannot be completed: Unable to
    communicate with CMS (503)
    # ipa cert-show 1 (which does not exist)
    ipa: ERROR: Certificate operation cannot be completed: Unable to
    communicate with CMS (503)
    # ipa cert-status 895
    ipa: ERROR: Certificate operation cannot be completed: Unable to
    communicate with CMS (503)
    #

Is this an IPV6 thing? Because ipactl shows everything green and 
certmonger is running.

Bret


On 04/26/2017 09:03 AM, Bret Wortman wrote:
>
> Digging still deeper:
>
>     # ipa cert-request f.f --principal=HTTP/`hostname`@DAMASCUSGRP.COM
>     ipa: ERROR: Certificate operation cannot be completed: Unable to
>     communicate with CMS (503)
>
> Looks like this is an HTTP error; so is it possible that my IPA thinks 
> it has a CA but there's no CMS available?
>
>
> On 04/26/2017 08:41 AM, Bret Wortman wrote:
>>
>> Using the firefox debugger, I get these errors when trying to pop up 
>> the New Certificate dialog:
>>
>>     Empty string passed to getElementById().             (5)
>>     jquery.js:4:1060
>>     TypeError: u is undefined app.js:1:362059
>>     Empty string passed to getElementById().             (5)
>>     jquery.js:4:1060
>>     TypeError: t is undefined app.js:1:217432
>>
>> I'm definitely not a web kind of guy so I'm not sure if this is 
>> helpful or not. This is on 4.4.0, API Version 2.213.
>>
>>
>> Bret
>>
>>
>> On 04/26/2017 08:35 AM, Bret Wortman wrote:
>>>
>>> Good news. One of my servers _does_ have CA installed. So why does 
>>> "Action -> New Certificate" not do anything on this or any other server?
>>>
>>>
>>> Bret
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/25/2017 02:52 PM, Bret Wortman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I recently had to upgrade all my Fedora IPA servers to C7. It went 
>>>> well, and we've been up and running nicely on 4.4.0 on C7 for the 
>>>> past month or so.
>>>>
>>>> Today, someone came and asked me to generate a new certificate for 
>>>> their web server. All was good until I went to the IPA UI and tried 
>>>> to perform Actions->New Certificate, which did nothing. I tried 
>>>> each of our 3 servers in turn. All came back with no popup window 
>>>> and no error, either.
>>>>
>>>> I suspect the problem might be that we no longer have a CA server 
>>>> due to the method I used to upgrade the servers. I likely missed a 
>>>> "--setup-ca" in there somewhere, so my rolling update rolled over 
>>>> the CA.
>>>>
>>>> What's my best hope of recovery? I never ran this before, so I'm 
>>>> not sure if this shows that I'm missing a CA or not:
>>>>
>>>>     # ipa ca-find
>>>>     ------------
>>>>     1 CA matched
>>>>     ------------
>>>>       Name: ipa
>>>>       Description IPA CA
>>>>       Authority ID: 3ce3346[...]
>>>>       Subject DN: CN=Certificate Authority, O=DAMASCUSGRP.COM
>>>>       Issuer DN: CN=Certificate Authority,O=DAMASCUSGRP.COM
>>>>     ----------------------------
>>>>     Number of entries returned 1
>>>>     ----------------------------
>>>>     # ipa ca-add dg --desc "Damascus Group" --subject "CN=DG CA,
>>>>     O=DAMASCUSGRP.COM"
>>>>     ipa: ERROR: Failed to authenticate to CA REST API
>>>>     # klist
>>>>     Ticket cache: KEYRING:persistent:0:0
>>>>     Default principal: admin at DAMASCUSGRP.COM
>>>>
>>>>     Valid starting      Expires              Service principal
>>>>     04/25/2017 18:48:26 04/26/2017 18:48:21
>>>>     krbtgt/DAMASCUSGRP.COM at DAMASCUSGRP.COM
>>>>     #
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What's my best path of recovery?
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> *Bret Wortman*
>>>> The Damascus Group
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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