[Pki-devel] Trouble enrolling with SSCEP

haygastourian at gmail.com haygastourian at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 12:14:57 UTC 2016


Hi Christina,

I got this to work with sscep. It seems the IP in my flatfile was wrong. I
think the main issue is the lack of a clear error message.

Thanks for your help,
Hayg

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:54 AM, haygastourian at gmail.com <
haygastourian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Christina,
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> I think using SCEP there is no enrollment profile that I touch? I thought
> setting up the flatfile.txt with the relevant values and modifying the
> config to enable SCEP was all that I needed to do. My intention was for it
> to be *automatically* approved because of the IP/password being present
> in flatfile.txt
>
> Does that help? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding your questions.
>
> Thanks,
> Hayg
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Christina Fu <cfu at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Hayg,
>>
>> I am running Fedora 22 so I'm not sure if there is any difference at all.
>>
>> I would like to understand your issue(s) better.
>> When you said that your request failed because it was "getting deferred",
>> does that mean you have it in the enrollment profile for manual approval?
>> In other words, it was your intention to have the request manually approved
>> by the CA agents?
>> You realize that if you require manual agent approval, there is no option
>> for sscep to "fetch" the already issued cert right?
>>
>> Or, did you not intend to have the request deferred and failed?  In which
>> case, you want to know why it failed?  If so, do you have relevant debug
>> log to give us some clue?
>>
>> Did I misunderstand your issue?
>>
>> Christina
>>
>>
>> On 04/05/2016 02:57 AM, haygastourian at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I've been trying to enroll with dogtag via SSCEP for the last few days to
>> no avail and I've reached the end of my rope, so I'm reaching out for your
>> help (which I very much would appreciate).
>>
>> I am running Ubuntu and my dogtag versions are:
>> hayg at hayg:~$ dpkg -l | grep dogtag
>>
>>> ii  dogtag-pki                               10.2.6-1
>>>      all          Dogtag Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Suite
>>> ii  dogtag-pki-console-theme                 10.2.6-1
>>>      all          Certificate System - PKI Console User Interface
>>> ii  dogtag-pki-server-theme                  10.2.6-1
>>>      all          Certificate System - PKI Server User Interface
>>
>>
>> My SSCEP:
>> [~/sscep]$ cat VERSION
>>
>>
>>> 0.6.1
>>
>>
>> My flatfile.txt:
>> hayg at hayg:~$ sudo cat /var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/conf/ca/flatfile.txt
>>
>>> #UID:172.16.24.238
>>> #PWD:1212
>>> UID:10.129.25.186
>>> PWD:secret
>>
>> (I restarted my pki-tomcatd service just in case, to make sure it took
>> effect)
>>
>> On the SSCEP side I'm doing: ./sscep enroll -l cert.pem -r local.csr -k
>> local.key -c astourian.crt -u '
>> http://hayg.astourian.info:8080/ca/cgi-bin/pkiclient.exe'
>>
>> This fails because the request is getting deferred and I have fail on
>> defer set to true, per the docs.
>>
>> The request actually shows up in 'List Certificates' when I go to the web
>> UI, but when I try to approve it, I get:
>>
>>> The Certificate System has encountered an unrecoverable error.
>>> Error Message:
>>>
>>> *java.lang.NullPointerException *Please contact your local
>>> administrator for assistance.
>>
>> When I try to resume the enrollment by adding the -R flag to sscep it
>> fails with the following error in the logs:
>>
>>> CRSEnrollment: No certificate has been found
>>
>>
>> My CSR:
>> [~/sscep]$ openssl req -in local.csr -noout -text
>>
>>> Certificate Request:
>>>     Data:
>>>         Version: 0 (0x0)
>>>         Subject: CN=10.129.25.186
>>>         Subject Public Key Info:
>>>             Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption
>>>                 Public-Key: (1024 bit)
>>>                 Modulus:
>>>                     00:ab:f4:b7:55:bd:26:51:b7:65:b9:51:4e:08:31:
>>>                     83:ef:d6:b7:97:cc:cb:82:4b:a6:3f:be:ac:1c:9a:
>>>                     f5:1e:0d:56:7c:6a:be:d3:49:17:b6:ba:42:05:eb:
>>>                     6c:e2:ff:2b:0f:64:d5:ae:e8:5b:6c:f8:df:74:ef:
>>>                     1f:a1:94:50:4c:35:90:bc:02:2b:2a:e3:80:b6:e1:
>>>                     75:a0:34:4d:74:0b:47:2c:f5:2d:87:2a:72:4a:93:
>>>                     5b:76:a8:cc:96:56:0b:de:62:69:1e:37:30:eb:49:
>>>                     4a:0a:8c:55:c4:0e:a7:9d:95:88:2d:ed:15:19:c6:
>>>                     19:93:02:84:40:09:40:44:b1
>>>                 Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)
>>>         Attributes:
>>>             challengePassword        :secret
>>>         Requested Extensions:
>>>             X509v3 Subject Alternative Name: critical
>>>                 IP Address:10.129.25.186
>>>     Signature Algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
>>>          7e:85:96:60:54:ed:c7:fd:d4:9d:b9:48:4c:d6:5a:2d:b1:62:
>>>          8f:26:58:04:da:f2:6d:cf:c7:59:dc:b5:b2:a9:69:8d:e0:df:
>>>          4d:26:7b:51:3e:d5:f4:90:21:d9:20:69:6f:6f:e1:58:28:90:
>>>          05:a7:38:1b:04:05:e6:84:03:78:95:90:d6:da:0c:56:c1:e9:
>>>          16:d4:01:15:c5:5e:06:3f:44:48:6e:e5:dd:f6:dc:62:0a:f9:
>>>          af:e7:c5:3d:0a:86:b1:99:40:90:ff:30:02:92:91:fb:dd:50:
>>>          f0:df:bf:73:96:6f:04:3e:73:66:02:86:66:a0:00:fa:a7:58:
>>>          ea:ae
>>
>>
>> As you can see, the password is "secret" and the CN is the UID from
>> flatfile.txt.
>>
>> I welcome you all to try enrolling with my server. I can then try
>> approving and see if it works.
>>
>> Again, I very much appreciate all of your help. Please excuse my wall of
>> text x_x
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hayg
>>
>>
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