Jan Bundesmann via FreeIPA-users wrote:
Hi there,
I need some suggestions for a certificate related problem.
The setup has 2 servers, let's call them ldap1 and ldap2 with ldap1 being the primary
system with the CA.
The certificates were to expire on june 15.
I checked on june 1st and on ldap1 certmonger had renewed all certificates, on ldap2
certmonger was not running.
So, I restarted the certmonger service and it began its work. `getcert list` shows three
certificates (it's ipa 4.4, so that's probably correct)
Quite soon, the first certificate was renewed (HTTP/ldap2, ...) I assume that's the
one for the web UI. A second one (ldap/ldap2...) is still valid until december. I assume
that's why all the ldap related stuff and replication is still working.
But the cn=IPA RA expired one week ago (may 24th).
I have no ipa-certs-fix, would setting back the system clock still work? The HTTP/ldap2
certificate was not yet valid when the IPA RA certificate expired.
Or put the the other round: what happens if i don't renew this certificate -
that's not quite clear to me. Currently, the system ist working fine, replication
works and in 2022 the hardware will be replaced, so we will setup new replicas anyways.
But, that's after the expiration date of the ldap/ldap2 certificate.
I hope this is understandable and thanks in advance for any hint.
Only one server (CA replication master) does the renewal of the CA
certificates, including the RA certificate. It puts the results into
LDAP where the other servers can retrieve the updated certificates.
So the RA certificate seems already renewed if the server with a CA is
working (ipa cert-show 1 as a test).
The impact of not having an updated RA certificate on ldap2 is that it
won't be able to communicate with the CA.
Can we see the tracking of this request on ldap2?
getcert list -d /etc/httpd/alias -n ipaCert
rob