I am not saying “instead of”. We are using standard authetication provided by FreeIPA, but I want to protect Web UI interface from unwanted attention as it is, unfortunately, exposed to entire internet. I’d be much happier if Apache could reject (or redirect) any client which is not presenting required certificate even before any authentication attempt is started.
That is not to say that the whole server is exposed, but 443 port is.

Ar laipniem sveicieniem,
Ivars Strazdiņš

On 2017. gada 29. maijs, at 17:07, Fraser Tweedale <ftweedal@redhat.com> wrote:

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 01:50:28PM +0300, Alexander Bokovoy via FreeIPA-users wrote:
On la, 27 touko 2017, Ivars Strazdiņš via FreeIPA-users wrote:
Hi there,
our IPA servers' https port is exposed to internet. I wanted to restrict access to Web UI by requesting a user certificate issued by IPA and enabling Apache setting "NSSVerifyClient require" (or "optional") in /etc/httpd/conf.d/nss.conf
This, however, broke "ipa" command, which now started to fail like:
[user@im conf.d]$ ipa user-show user
ipa: ERROR: cannot connect to 'https://a.b.c.d/ipa/json': (SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_ALERT) SSL peer cannot verify your certificate.

Questions:
Is it possible for "ipa" command to present sertificate to Apache server?

Hi Ivars,

I am curious about your use case.  Is there some reason why you need
certificate authentication instead of Kerberos?  Knowing why you
want to do this will help us decide when or whether to implement
this.

Thanks,
Fraser

Not possible yet. Note that it is not only an issue of 'ipa' command,
there are also other commands that are used for join operation and
also require access to the HTTPS end point.

Prior to FreeIPA 4.5 there is no way to enable certificate
authentication to web UI at all. In 4.5 we added ability to authenticate
with certificates to web UI. However, none of the enrollment tools and
'ipa' utility were changed to allow such method.

It would probably be good to open a ticket to make sure cert-based
authentication would be supported by 'ipa' and enrollment tools.

Anything else is going to break by such approach?
See above.
--
/ Alexander Bokovoy
_______________________________________________
FreeIPA-users mailing list -- freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org
To unsubscribe send an email to freeipa-users-leave@lists.fedorahosted.org