[Pki-users] CS 8.0: Cannot Complete CA Cloning Wizard UsingnCipher netHSM

[Patrick.Raspante at gdc4s.com]

Ade,

BTW, this is on CS8 GA.

I've been able to complete the P12 import wizard page. The issue was that the Master CA's 'replicationdb' entry in the cms.passwordlist of CS.cfg was removed (unused extra prompt at startup). 

The rekey wasn't an issue on the p12 import page, but may be an issue for me later in the wizard during certificate generation.


Patrick 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ade Lee [mailto:alee at redhat.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 11:51 AM
To: Raspante, Patrick
Cc: pki-users at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Pki-users] CS 8.0: Cannot Complete CA Cloning Wizard UsingnCipher netHSM

Patrick, 

This should work - given that the master's keys are visible to the
clone.  The only thing this suggests is that the nicknames that are sent
from the master to the clone are incorrect at the beginning of the
install process are incorrect.

To diagnose this, I'll need to know:

1. Versions of pki-ca and pki-common (rpm -q pki-ca pki-common)
2. Copy of debug log for both master and clone.
3. Copy of CS.cfg for both master and clone.
4.  Is the HSM in FIPS mode?

Thanks, 
Ade

On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 10:18 -0400, Patrick.Raspante at gdc4s.com wrote:
> Given a Master CA with existing keys in an ncipher netHSM:
> 
> From Guide:
> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Certificate_System/8.0/html/Install_Guide/cloning-a-ca.html
> 
> Documentation says there need not be any extra intervention to export
> and import HSM keys if the new Clone resides on the same server as the
> Master:
> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Certificate_System/8.0/html/Install_Guide/exporting-keys.html
> 
> Cannot get past step 10. Leaving the p12 path and p12 password fields
> blank (do no import p12's) results in an end of file sax parse error.
> 
> Tried feeding the wizard a dummy p12. Get an error message "Clone is
> not ready". Debug log files reveals that not all require certificates
> have been imported.
> 
>  
> 
> Also worth noting that before running the Clone Wizard:
> 
>  
> 
> # cd /var/lib/CLONE-CA/alias
> # modutil -dbdir . -list
> 
> --The netHSM module is listed
> 
> # certutil -L -d . -h <token-name>
> 
> --Lists all of MASTER-CA’s certificates/keys are available.
> 
>  
> 
> Has anyone identified a workaround for this?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -pwr
> 
> 
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