[Freeipa-users] New install, unsupported format?

[Rob Crittenden]

Steve Huston wrote:
> Next stage of my testing was to make a replica of the FreeIPA server,
> and I started by doing a 'yum install ipa-server' and then moved on to
> adding the host to the ipaservers group.  This fails every time
> however, with the error:
> 
> ipa: ERROR: cannot connect to
> 'https://ipa.astro.princeton.edu/ipa/json':
> (SEC_ERROR_LEGACY_DATABASE) The certificate/key database is in an old,
> unsupported format.
> 
> Searches on this seem to turn up things like expired certificates, or
> "reboot httpd" (I went ahead and rebooted the whole ipa server), but
> nothing concrete.  Suggestions?  Everything (server and soon-to-be
> replica) running RHEL7.3 with all updates.
> 

See the workaround in https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/6575#comment:9

rob