The Dogtag Certificate System is an enterprise-class Certificate Authority (CA) which supports all aspects of certificate lifecycle management, including key archival, OCSP and smartcard management.
At least the debug log is not reporting the failure, some other one may I need to check.
At the very least though, the CA should not have to even attempt to publish to defunct publishing targets for the CRL, at the very minimum , if we want to preserve the entry in the name of non destructive behavior, we disable the publisher and re-enable it later if it gets re-added in the future.
This issue was migrated from Pagure Issue #1362. Originally filed by jmagne (@jmagne) on 2015-05-01 18:55:37:
This is based on observations when working on another ticket.
Create a CA
Create a master OCSP, this results in the installer procedure registering this CRL as a publisher within the CA.
Perform pkidestroy on the the OCSP.
Based upon my observations, the now deceased OCSP is still listed in the config as a publisher and the publishing rule is still active.
Additional info:
I actually tried the following scenario by creating and deleting an outboard OCSP. The following occurred:
01/May/2015:09:50:38][CRLIssuingPoint-MasterCRL]: Publish CRL [01/May/2015:09:50:38][CRLIssuingPoint-MasterCRL]: OCSPPublisher: Host='localhost.localdomain' Port='8443' URL='/ocsp/agent/ocsp/addCRL' [01/May/2015:09:50:38][CRLIssuingPoint-MasterCRL]: OCSPPublisher: start CRL sending startTime=1430499038798 [01/May/2015:09:50:38][CRLIssuingPoint-MasterCRL]: OCSPPublisher: done CRL sending endTime=1430499038798 diff=0 [01/May/2015:09:51:38][CRLIssuingPoint-MasterCRL]: CRL published.
At least the debug log is not reporting the failure, some other one may I need to check.
At the very least though, the CA should not have to even attempt to publish to defunct publishing targets for the CRL, at the very minimum , if we want to preserve the entry in the name of non destructive behavior, we disable the publisher and re-enable it later if it gets re-added in the future.