Thank you. your help is appreciated. We are still out of luck and this is becoming very critical for us.
Please help.
We did remove all but 1 certificate, restarted master (ds01) but clientinstallation, connection check and replica installation still fails.
certutil -D -d /etc/pki/nssdb -n 'ARTERIS.COM IPA CA'
the log messages are,
/var/log/ipaclient-install.log
2017-10-13T06:25:31Z DEBUG Starting external process 2017-10-13T06:25:31Z DEBUG args=/usr/bin/certutil -d /etc/ipa/nssdb -A -n ARTERIS.COM IPA CA -t CT,C,C -f /etc/ipa/nssdb/pwdfile.txt 2017-10-13T06:25:31Z DEBUG Process finished, return code=255 2017-10-13T06:25:31Z DEBUG stdout= 2017-10-13T06:25:31Z DEBUG stderr=certutil: could not add certificate to token or database: SEC_ERROR_ADDING_CERT: Error adding certificate to database.
2017-10-13T06:25:31Z ERROR Installation failed. Rolling back changes.
/var/log/ipareplica-conncheck.log
2017-10-13T01:56:19Z DEBUG Starting external process 2017-10-13T01:56:19Z DEBUG args=/usr/bin/certutil -d /tmp/tmpbrAYYO -A -n CN=Certificate Authority,O=ARTERIS.COM -t C,, -f /tmp/tmpbrAYYO/pwdfile.txt 2017-10-13T01:56:19Z DEBUG Process finished, return code=0 2017-10-13T01:56:19Z DEBUG stdout= 2017-10-13T01:56:19Z DEBUG stderr= 2017-10-13T01:56:19Z DEBUG Starting external process 2017-10-13T01:56:19Z DEBUG args=/usr/bin/certutil -d /tmp/tmpbrAYYO -A -n CN=Certificate Authority,O=ARTERIS.COM -t C,, -f /tmp/tmpbrAYYO/pwdfile.txt 2017-10-13T01:56:19Z DEBUG Process finished, return code=255 2017-10-13T01:56:19Z DEBUG stdout= 2017-10-13T01:56:19Z DEBUG stderr=certutil: could not add certificate to token or database: SEC_ERROR_ADDING_CERT: Error adding certificate to database.
Here is the Red Hat thread https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1143193.
regards, Bhavin
________________________________ From: Rob Crittenden rcritten@redhat.com Sent: Friday, October 13, 2017 5:38 AM To: FreeIPA users list; Bhavin Vaidya Cc: John Dennis Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Re: several IPA CA certificate entries
John Dennis via FreeIPA-users wrote:
On 10/12/2017 05:06 PM, Bhavin Vaidya wrote:
Hello Jon,
thank you for your help. responded to main thread, and just sending you the actual output for certutil.
[root@ds01 log]# certutil -d /etc/pki/nssdb -L
Certificate Nickname Trust Attributes
SSL,S/MIME,JAR/XPI
ARTERIS.COM IPA CA CT,C,C ARTERIS.COM IPA CA CT,C,C ARTERIS.COM IPA CA CT,C,C ARTERIS.COM IPA CA CT,C,C
These nicknames do not look unique to me, I'm assuming you're still editing them for inclusion in this email.
But irregardless here is where I'm going with this. Your goal is to identify the correct cert to use and which to discard. The only way you can do that is to examine each individual cert. To examine an individual cert you must have it's *unique* nickname to pass to "certutil -L -a -n xxx" where xxx is the unique nickname.
Only you can identify the correct cert once you list them. At the absolute minimum they should each have a unique (issuer,serial_number) pair. The one you want to use will probably select based on the issuer and validity dates.
This is how NSS handles multiple copies of the same certificate subject in a given database.
My assumption is that the CA was renewed multiple times.
This should get you the PEM-encoded copies of the certs:
# certutil -D -d /etc/pki/nssdb -n "ARTERIS.COM IPA CA" -a
rob
*From:* John Dennis jdennis@redhat.com *Sent:* Thursday, October 12, 2017 6:10 AM *To:* FreeIPA users list *Cc:* Bhavin Vaidya; Rob Crittenden *Subject:* Re: [Freeipa-users] Re: several IPA CA certificate entries On 10/12/2017 03:29 AM, Rob Crittenden via FreeIPA-users wrote:
Bhavin Vaidya via FreeIPA-users wrote:
Hello,
I'm having various problem on our FreeIPA setup, like can not establish new replica server or add a client anymore. Initially we had certificate issue, then we upgraded the Master FreeIPA server (CentOS 7.0.146) to FreeIPA v4.4.0) few months back.
On master server it shows up 4 entries for IPA CA certificate. Is this normal?
[root@ds01 ~]# certutil -d /etc/pki/nssdb -L
Certificate Nickname Trust Attributes
SSL,S/MIME,JAR/XPI
EXAMPLE.COM IPA CA CT,C,C EXAMPLE.COM IPA CA CT,C,C EXAMPLE.COM IPA CA CT,C,C EXAMPLE.COM IPA CA CT,C,C
The question is: are these all different certificates (and why)? I assume someone ran ipa-cacert-manage renew a bunch of times.
Multiple entries in itself shouldn't be a problem.
I assume this is related to your client install issues. You may be able to get away with having just the latest CA cert stored in LDAP to avoid this.
I saw this last night and my first thought was this shouldn't happen because certutil enforces nickname uniqueness.
We would like to verify what each cert is, specifically it's issuer and serial number. But we can't ask certutil to show us the details of a cert because you must pass the -n nickname flag to certutil so it can find the cert to display. But since the nicknames are not unique you can't do that. This is why certutil (and any low level NSS API that adds a cert to the db) demands name uniqueness.
Are the names listed with -L truly unique? It looks like you edited them.
-- John