[Pki-users] How to completely remove all traces of pki subsystem

kashyap chamarthy kchamart at redhat.com
Fri Sep 11 09:00:02 UTC 2009


Rashmi Pawar wrote:
> Hi Kashyap,
>  
> Thank you for the advise.
>  
> I am using fedora 10 and installing dogtag1.2.0. I read the 
> documentation on redhat certificate system 8.0 on RHEL 5.3.
> In the documentation fedora it has been mentioned that sqlite should be 
> installed while in documentation for certificate system 8.0 on RHEL5.3 
> sqlite,libsqlite rpms should be removed...
> SQLlite is installed at the time of installtion so I am confused if 
> Sqlite has to be removed from FC10 or not for RA subsytem, or if the the 
> prerequisites for installing the certificate system are different for 
> FC10 and RHEL5.3?

IIRC, if you are trying to remove dependencies for RA(SQLite related), perl-DBI and 
perl-DBD-SQLite should be OK.

/kashyap


> Rashmi
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:43 PM, kashyap chamarthy <kchamart at redhat.com 
> <mailto:kchamart at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Rashmi Pawar wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>          I tried using firefox for configuration but was not successfull.
>          As i got the error 46 on web browser and could not resolve the
>         error I uninstalled all the pki subsystems, again when i
>         installed the pki susbsytems say pki-ca a new instance file
>         /var/log/pki-ca-install.log was not created.. Please advice me
>         how to completely remove all traces, instances of
>         pki-subsystems..as i tried pkiremove and pkicreate to remove and
>         create the instance and log file...but was unsuccessfull.
> 
> 
>     Though I'm not sure of the error 46 you're encountering,
> 
> 
>     - Also try to clean-up the Directory Server instance, (and later
>     create a new one)
>     # remove-ds.pl -i slapd-foo
>     (-f can be passed as argument to force uninstall)
> 
>     - Try doing a yum remove for the pki package dependencies,
> 
>     - After that, try removing the below files..
> 
>     /var/lib/pki* /var/log/pki* /etc/init.d/pki*
> 
>     - Create a new firefox user profile (just to avoid any old subsystem
>     certs in your browser)
> 
>     HTH,
>     kashyap
> 
>          Thanks.
>          Regards.
>         Rsahmi
> 
> 
> 
>          On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Chandrasekar Kannan
>         <ckannan at redhat.com <mailto:ckannan at redhat.com>
>         <mailto:ckannan at redhat.com <mailto:ckannan at redhat.com>>> wrote:
> 
>            On 09/04/2009 02:16 AM, Rashmi Pawar wrote:
> 
>                Hi when i configured subsystem pki-ca i got he error
>             "Error 46
>                Cerendentials not generated"
>                Please find the attached file that shows the error...
> 
> 
>            I don't believe we support IE for the administration interface.
>            If possible, please try with firefox.
> 
> 
> 
>                On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Rashmi Pawar
>                <rashmeepawar at gmail.com <mailto:rashmeepawar at gmail.com>
>             <mailto:rashmeepawar at gmail.com
>             <mailto:rashmeepawar at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> 
>                    ok..
>                    thanks a lot...
> 
>                    On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Chandrasekar Kannan
>                    <ckannan at redhat.com <mailto:ckannan at redhat.com>
>             <mailto:ckannan at redhat.com <mailto:ckannan at redhat.com>>> wrote:
> 
>                        On 09/01/2009 07:48 PM, Rashmi Pawar wrote:
> 
>                                                    Thank you
>                 Chandrasekar for your prompt and informative
>                            response.
>                                        I asked if apache or secure
>                 apache is required for dogtag
>                            implementation because at the end of the web page
>                          
>                  http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Runtime_Environments
>                 it
>                            has been mentioned that RA and TPS subsystems
>                 require
>                            Apache web server,
>                            hence the question as to what all daemons and
>                 rpms need
>                            to be installed and configured before
>                 starting installing
>                            and configuring PKI subsytsems.
> 
> 
>                        ah ok. yeah apache is required. but if you do
>                        yum -y install pki-tps pki-ra
> 
>                        yum will pull in and install all the dependencies
>             for you.
>                        httpd - apache webserver is one of them.
> 
>                        no other action is required.
> 
> 
> 
>                                        
>                                        On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:43 PM,
>                 Chandrasekar Kannan
>                            <ckannan at redhat.com
>                 <mailto:ckannan at redhat.com> <mailto:ckannan at redhat.com
>                 <mailto:ckannan at redhat.com>>> wrote:
> 
>                                On 09/01/2009 09:43 AM, Rashmi Pawar wrote:
> 
>                                                                    I
>                     want to install all the 6 PKI subsystems for
>                                    dogtag implementation,
> 
> 
>                                right. yum -y install pki-ca pki-tks
>                 pki-tps pki-ra
>                                pki-ocsp pki-kra
>                                is all you need to do. It will pull in
>                 httpd,tomcat5
>                                etc...
> 
> 
>                                    do i need to configure apache or
>                     secure apache.
> 
> 
>                                What is this for ?
> 
> 
> 
>                                                    Thanks in advance.
>                                    
> 
>                                                    On Mon, Aug 31, 2009
>                     at 5:53 PM, Chandrasekar Kannan
>                                    <ckannan at redhat.com
>                     <mailto:ckannan at redhat.com>
>                     <mailto:ckannan at redhat.com
>                     <mailto:ckannan at redhat.com>>> wrote:
> 
>                                        On 08/31/2009 01:20 AM, Rashmi
>                     Pawar wrote:
> 
>                                            Hi Chandrasekar,
>                                                                Thank you
>                         for your reply.
>                                            One quick question..As you
>                         said i dont need to
>                                            install and run Apache if
>                         pki-tps and pki-ra
>                                            subsystems are not
>                         installed...My question is
>                                            even if i am not installing
>                         pki-ra and pki-tps
>                                            subsystems can i still go
>                         with apache?
> 
> 
>                                        can u explain what you will use
>                     apache for .. in
>                                        this case ?..
> 
>                                                                Regards,
>                                            Rashmi Pawar
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>                                                Hi
> 
>                                                I am new to the Dogtag
>                         Certificate system.
>                                                I have to install the dogtag
>                                                certificate system on
>                         fedora core 6. I
>                                                would appreciate help
>                         from pki-users
>                                                who have successfully
>                         installed and are
>                                                runing dogtag certificate
>                         system on
>                                                linux.
>                                                I read the explanantion
>                         on dogtag on
>                                              
>                          http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Main_Page
>                                                yet I have some questions
>                                                before starting the
>                         installation. Following
>                                                are the questions:
> 
>                                                1. Do I have to install
>                         and run Apache
>                                                service on the system on
>                         which I am
>                                                going to implement dogtag?
>                                                2. I am confused about
>                         the configuration of
>                                                all the PKI subsystems like
>                                                CA,RA,DRM...etc. In the
>                                              
>                          http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Main_Page
>                                                the
>                                                configuration of all
>                         subsyems is given but
>                                                I dont understand from
>                         where do I
>                                                get the configuration URL
>                         for each subsystem.
>                                                3. I have to integrate
>                         the setup with
>                                                Checkpoint, so need steps
>                         on the
>                                                integration.
> 
>                                                I would appreciate if
>                         someone who has
>                                                implemented dogtag would
>                         provide me
>                                                easy steps to install
>                         dogtag on fedora core 6.
> 
>                                                Thanks & Regards,
>                                                Rashmi
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>                                                On 08/30/2009 01:12 AM,
>                         Rashmi Pawar wrote:
>                                                > Hi
>                                                > I am new to the Dogtag
>                         Certificate
>                                                system. I have to install the
>                                                > dogtag certificate
>                         system on fedora core
>                                                6. I would appreciate help
>                                                > from pki-users who have
>                         successfully
>                                                installed and are runing
>                         dogtag
>                                                > certificate system on
>                         linux.
>                                                > I read the explanantion
>                         on dogtag on
>                                                >
>                                              
>                          http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Main_Page
>                                                yet I have some
>                                                > questions before
>                         starting the
>                                                installation. Following
>                         are the questions:
>                                                > 1. Do I have to install
>                         and run Apache
>                                                service on the system on
>                                                > which I am going to
>                         implement dogtag?
> 
>                                                not unless you need
>                         pki-tps or pki-ra
>                                                subsystems. For pki-ca,
>                         pki-tks,
>                                                pki-ocsp, pki-kra you
>                         just need tomcat5.
> 
>                                                > 2. I am confused about
>                         the configuration
>                                                of all the PKI subsystems
>                                                > like CA,RA,DRM...etc.
>                         In the
>                                                >
>                                              
>                          http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Main_Page
>                                                the configuration of
>                                                > all subsyems is given
>                         but I dont
>                                                understand from where do
>                         I get the
>                                                > configuration URL for
>                         each subsystem.
> 
>                                                for example, once you run
>                         yum install
>                                                pki-ca, the rpm post install
>                                                scripts run
>                         /usr/bin/pkicreate utility to
>                                                create the default instance.
>                                                Upon creation of this
>                         default instance,
>                                                pkicreate spits out the
>                         url for
>                                                configuration.
> 
> 
>                                                > 3. I have to integrate
>                         the setup with
>                                                Checkpoint, so need steps
>                         on the
>                                                > integration.
>                                                no idea.
> 
>                                                > I would appreciate if
>                         someone who has
>                                                implemented dogtag would
>                         provide
>                                                > me easy steps to
>                         install dogtag on fedora
>                                                core 6.
>                                                > Thanks & Regards,
>                                                > Rashmi
>                                                >
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