[Pki-users] How to setup PKI CA to ask for passwords at startup?
Aleksey Chudov
aleksey.chudov at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 08:50:02 UTC 2015
Certainly https://fedorahosted.org/pki/ticket/1602
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Matthew Harmsen <mharmsen at redhat.com>
wrote:
> Aleksey,
>
> Thanks for the instruction.
>
> Would you be willing to file a PKI TRAC Ticket on this:
>
> - https://fedorahosted.org/pki/newticket
>
> In general, we triage these tickets on a weekly basis, and assign it to an
> appropriate release.
>
> For this specific ticket, although an actual fix may be a ways off, we
> generally try to get this type of information documented as a workaround in
> the near term.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Matt
> On 09/02/15 02:43, Aleksey Chudov wrote:
>
> Below is quick instruction of how to run
> pki-tomcatd-nuxwdog at pki-tomcat.service as pkiuser:pkiuser in case it will
> be useful for someone
>
>
> systemctl stop pki-tomcatd-nuxwdog at pki-tomcat.service
>
> groupadd -r systemd-ask-password
>
> usermod -a -G systemd-ask-password pkiuser
>
> echo "d /run/systemd/ask-password 0775 root systemd-ask-password -" >
> /etc/tmpfiles.d/systemd-ask-password.conf
>
> /usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --create systemd-ask-password.conf
>
> mkdir /etc/systemd/system/pki-tomcatd-nuxwdog at .service.d/
>
> cat << EOF > /etc/systemd/system/pki-tomcatd-nuxwdog at .service.d/override.conf
>
> [Service]
> User=pkiuser
> Group=pkiuser
> EOF
>
> systemctl daemon-reload
>
> find /var/lib/pki/ /var/log/pki/ /etc/pki/pki-*/ -exec chown
> pkiuser:pkiuser {} +
>
> systemctl start pki-tomcatd-nuxwdog at pki-tomcat.service
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Aleksey Chudov <aleksey.chudov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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>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>
>>> 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>
>>>> 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>
>>>> 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>
>>>> 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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