[Pki-users] Importing existing CA chain into new dogtag instance

[Jonathan Barber]

Hi, I've been playing with Dogtag for the last couple of days, and want
to test it with our existing CA cert that we use locally. So I've been
seting them up as subordinate CA's.

I hit a minor glitch in setup when connecting to a remote FDS instance,
it won't connect via SSL and I just get the error "Failed to connect to
the internal database", presumably because the the SSL cert doesn't pass
validation.

After configuring the CA as a subordinate, I sign the CA cert CSR with
our local CA, then provide our CA cert in PKSC7 form - generated with
with the command:
openssl crl2pkcs7 -nocrl -certfile cacert.pem

Upon restarting the CA instance, everything works, but I can't find any
trace of the issuer certificate in the certutil DB so I presume it
failed. Where should it go?

After setup, when I try and use the pkiconsole to load the CA cert (in
PEM format) into the DB (as a CA or Local Certificate) I get the error
"Certificate Error: Failed to decode", and PrettyPrintCrt gives me:
PrettyPrintCert:  Error encountered on parsing certificate : java.security.cert.CertificateParsingException: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: IssuerAlternativeNameExtensionnetscape.security.x509.GeneralNamesException: No data available in passed DER encoded value.
null

I can load it into the instance certutil DB, but can't then see it in
the pkiconsole.

Any ideas? The certicate in question is:

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Yan4Hw==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
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Jonathan Barber
High Performance Computing Analyst
Tel. +44 (0) 1382 386389