Hi Flo,


On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 8:17 AM, Florence Blanc-Renaud <flo@redhat.com> wrote:
On 12/18/2017 08:54 PM, Steve Dainard via FreeIPA-users wrote:
Hello,

Using freeipa 4.5.

I've replaced an external root CA that had a very short key, and have gone through the process of resigning the ipa intermediate-CA.

I've used ipa-cacert-manage to generate a new csr and have signed it with my new external CA. The cert was successfully imported.

I also ran ipa-certupdate on 2 of 2 ipa servers and I can see the new CA listed on both ipa servers with 'certutil -L -d /etc/pki/pki-tomcat/alias'

When I run 'ipa-getcert resubmit -n Server-Cert -d /etc/httpd/alias' on an ipa server the certificate is resubmitted, but its still being signed by the old ipa intermediate-CA.

Hi,

you changed the external root CA when renewing IPA CA, meaning that IPA CA has a new cert chain containing the ext root CA, but IPA CA keeps the same subject name "CN=Certificate Authority,O=DOMAIN.COM".

The command resubmit asks IPA CA to renew the Server-Cert. So it is expected that you see the same "old ipa intermediate CA" as issuer of your Server-Cert for HTTPd.

To double check I ran through the process of requesting an http cert on a new server, and indeed the Issuer CN is the same "CN=Certificate Authority,O=DOMAIN.COM" (which makes sense from your answer). But when I look at the http cert I just requested, the IPA CA cert 'Issued CN' field is the old external CA.

To get my client cert I followed the process here: https://www.freeipa.org/page/PKI#Automated_certificate_requests_with_Certmonger. One of the first steps is to pull the ipa ca's into the nssdb. I have 4 certs in that file now which builds the chain for old ext ca/old ipa ca, new ext ca/new ipa ca. I don't think this has any impact on the cert request process but it does show that both chains are in ipa.
 
 


I also see in the web ui under Authentication -> Certificates -> Certificate Authorities that only one ca named 'ipa' exists, and I can see the Issuer DN is still the old root CA.

This is a bug tracked in issue 7316: The Issuer DN field in IPA is not updating properly [1]. The webui and the command ipa ca-show ipa read the issuer name from an LDAP entry that is not updated. But if you look at the content of the certificate, you will be able to check that the issuer is indeed the new external root CA.


How can I invalidate the old intermediate-CA so the new intermediate-CA is used to sign certs going forwards?


Thanks,
Steve


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HTH,
Flo

[1] https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/7316