[Pki-users] How to setup PKI CA to ask for passwords at startup?

Wed Sep 2 08:05:52 UTC 2015

One big difference in starting PKI under nuxwdog control is that
pki-tomcatd at pki-tomcat.service starts PKI as pkiuser:pkiuser but
pki-tomcatd-nuxwdog at pki-tomcat.service starts PKI as root:root. Running PKI
as root user is bad idea.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Aleksey Chudov <aleksey.chudov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> To begin with I have updated to version 10.2.6 from F22 testing to get
> pki-server man pages.
>
> Enabling nuxwdog solves the problem. Thank you!
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Ade Lee <alee at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Aleksey,
>>
>> password prompting in CS 8.1 worked because of a utility program called
>> nuxwdog which would prompt for passwords.
>>
>> We have done some work to get nuxwdog working with the latest Dogtag
>> code, but there is some setup required.
>> Fortunately, all that setup has been encapsulated in the pki-server
>> utility.
>>
>> For details, man pki-server , man pki-server-instance and man
>> pki-server-nuxwdog.
>>
>> The specific command would be:
>> pki-server instance-nuxwdog-enable <instance_id ie. pki-tomcat>
>>
>> You should then be prompted for the passwords, and can remove your
>> password.conf file.
>>
>> Ade
>> On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 21:49 +0300, Aleksey Chudov wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking at removing at least nss password but both nss and 389
>> passwords will be better.
>>
>> Actually PKI prompts for password but I don't see the prompt because of
>> systemd.
>>
>> To reproduce
>>
>> systemctl stop pki-tomcatd at pki-tomcat.service
>> sed -i.bak '/internal=/d' /etc/pki/pki-tomcat/password.conf
>> systemctl start pki-tomcatd at pki-tomcat.service
>>
>> /var/log/messages
>> Aug 26 21:37:33 srv333 server[8889]: Enter password for Internal Key
>> Storage Token
>>
>> /var/log/pki/pki-tomcat/ca/debug
>> [26/Aug/2015:21:37:52][localhost-startStop-1]: Got token Internal Key
>> Storage Token by name
>> [26/Aug/2015:21:37:52][localhost-startStop-1]: SigningUnit init: debug
>> org.mozilla.jss.util.IncorrectPasswordException
>> Invalid Password
>>         at com.netscape.ca.SigningUnit.init(SigningUnit.java:192)
>>         at
>> com.netscape.ca.CertificateAuthority.initSigUnit(CertificateAuthority.java:1229)
>>         at
>> com.netscape.ca.CertificateAuthority.init(CertificateAuthority.java:342)
>>         at
>> com.netscape.cmscore.apps.CMSEngine.initSubsystem(CMSEngine.java:1107)
>>         at
>> com.netscape.cmscore.apps.CMSEngine.initSubsystems(CMSEngine.java:1013)
>>         at com.netscape.cmscore.apps.CMSEngine.init(CMSEngine.java:520)
>>         at com.netscape.certsrv.apps.CMS.init(CMS.java:187)
>>         at com.netscape.certsrv.apps.CMS.start(CMS.java:1601)
>>         at
>> com.netscape.cms.servlet.base.CMSStartServlet.init(CMSStartServlet.java:114)
>>         at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158)
>>         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>>         at
>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
>>         at
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>>         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:277)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:274)
>>         at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>>         at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:536)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:309)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:169)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:123)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1272)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1197)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1087)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5210)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5493)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.access$000(ContainerBase.java:133)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$PrivilegedAddChild.run(ContainerBase.java:156)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$PrivilegedAddChild.run(ContainerBase.java:145)
>>         at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:875)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:632)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:672)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1862)
>>         at
>> java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
>>         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
>>         at
>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
>>         at
>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
>>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
>> [26/Aug/2015:21:37:52][localhost-startStop-1]: CMSEngine.shutdown()
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Dave Sirrine <dsirrine at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Aleksey,
>>
>> Did removing the password from the file not cause the system to prompt
>> you for the password at startup. Also, are you looking at doing both nss
>> and 389 passwords?
>>
>> -- David
>> On Aug 26, 2015 5:58 AM, "Aleksey Chudov" <aleksey.chudov at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The password.conf file stores system passwords in plaintext, and I
>> prefer to enter system passwords manually and to remove the password file.
>>
>> I have found original documentation
>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Certificate_System/8.1/html/Admin_Guide/System_Passwords.html.
>> But it is for older version on PKI and does not work with systemd.
>>
>> How to setup PKI CA to ask for NSS DB password at startup?
>>
>> Packages versions (I have rebuilt F22 packages for CentOS 7):
>> # rpm -qa | grep pki
>> pki-base-10.2.5-1.el7.centos.noarch
>> pki-server-10.2.5-1.el7.centos.noarch
>> dogtag-pki-server-theme-10.2.5-1.el7.centos.noarch
>> pki-ca-10.2.5-1.el7.centos.noarch
>> pki-tools-10.2.5-1.el7.centos.x86_64
>> dogtag-pki-console-theme-10.2.5-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>
>> Aleksey
>>
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