Renewing already expired CA certificate

pki-bot commented 4 years ago

This issue was migrated from Pagure Issue #1752. Originally filed by edewata (@edewata) on 2016-01-28 18:56:22:

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Associated bugzillas
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1294287

Currently if the CA certificate has already expired, the client cannot connect to the CA, and the CA subsystem will fail if restarted, so the admin may not be able to access the CA subsystem to do the renewal itself.

The usual solution is to change the system date back to the period where the cert is still valid. However, this is not very user-friendly. It affects the whole system, and timestamps in the log files will not be accurate anymore.

Another option is to add support of Unix Domain Socket to Tomcat, so the PKI client can still connect to the CA without valid certificate.

The other option is to have offline tools to renew the CA certificate. This might include refactoring the profile processor to run outside the server.

See also:

pki-bot commented 4 years ago

Comment from edewata (@edewata) at 2016-01-28 23:19:40

This would be useful to address this issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1294287

pki-bot commented 4 years ago

Comment from msauton (@msauton) at 2016-02-01 21:03:52

there is a feature in 8.1: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Certificate_System/8.1/html/Admin_Guide/managing-ca-related-profiles.html#ca-validity-default in pki-common CAValidityDefault.java

pki-bot commented 4 years ago

Comment from mharmsen (@mharmsen) at 2016-02-01 21:50:47

Per discussions in CS/DS meeting of 02/01/2016: 10.4 major

pki-bot commented 4 years ago

Comment from mharmsen (@mharmsen) at 2016-02-15 23:45:31

Per CS/DS meeting of 02/15/2016: Future

NOTE: As a stopgap measure, PKI TRAC Ticket 1962 - Create Job Notification Plug-in to monitor and warn of an expiring CA Certificate was filed.

pki-bot commented 4 years ago

Comment from edewata (@edewata) at 2016-02-23 16:31:16

Debug log provided by Tomasz Torcz (tomek@pipebreaker.pl):

[08/Jan/2016:18:49:36][localhost-startStop-1]: LdapJssSSLSocket set client auth cert nicknamesubsystemCert cert-pki-ca Could not connect to LDAP server host okda.pipebreaker.pl port 636 Error netscape.ldap.LDAPException: IO Error creating JSS SSL Socket (-1) at com.netscape.cmscore.ldapconn.LdapBoundConnFactory.makeConnection(LdapBoundConnFactory.java:205) at com.netscape.cmscore.ldapconn.LdapBoundConnFactory.init(LdapBoundConnFactory.java:166) at com.netscape.cmscore.ldapconn.LdapBoundConnFactory.init(LdapBoundConnFactory.java:130) at com.netscape.cmscore.dbs.DBSubsystem.init(DBSubsystem.java:651) at com.netscape.cmscore.apps.CMSEngine.initSubsystem(CMSEngine.java:1167) at com.netscape.cmscore.apps.CMSEngine.initSubsystems(CMSEngine.java:1073) at com.netscape.cmscore.apps.CMSEngine.init(CMSEngine.java:570) at com.netscape.certsrv.apps.CMS.init(CMS.java:187) at com.netscape.certsrv.apps.CMS.start(CMS.java:1594) at com.netscape.cms.servlet.base.CMSStartServlet.init(CMSStartServlet.java:114) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:286) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:283) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:549) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:318) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:122) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1219) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1144) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1031) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4914) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5201) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:725) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.access$000(ContainerBase.java:131) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$PrivilegedAddChild.run(ContainerBase.java:153) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$PrivilegedAddChild.run(ContainerBase.java:143) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:699) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:586) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1750) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Internal Database Error encountered: Could not connect to LDAP server host okda.pipebreaker.pl port 636 Error netscape.ldap.LDAPException: IO Error creating JSS SSL Socket (-1) at com.netscape.cmscore.dbs.DBSubsystem.init(DBSubsystem.java:673) at com.netscape.cmscore.apps.CMSEngine.initSubsystem(CMSEngine.java:1167) at com.netscape.cmscore.apps.CMSEngine.initSubsystems(CMSEngine.java:1073) at com.netscape.cmscore.apps.CMSEngine.init(CMSEngine.java:570) at com.netscape.certsrv.apps.CMS.init(CMS.java:187) at com.netscape.certsrv.apps.CMS.start(CMS.java:1594) at com.netscape.cms.servlet.base.CMSStartServlet.init(CMSStartServlet.java:114) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:286) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:283) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:549) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:318) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:122) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1219) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1144) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1031) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4914) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5201) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:725) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.access$000(ContainerBase.java:131) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$PrivilegedAddChild.run(ContainerBase.java:153) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$PrivilegedAddChild.run(ContainerBase.java:143) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:699) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:586) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1750) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

pki-bot commented 4 years ago

Comment from edewata (@edewata) at 2016-06-11 06:29:41

Another case that could be helped by this enhancement: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330800

pki-bot commented 4 years ago

Comment from edewata (@edewata) at 2016-08-07 23:27:18

https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2016-July/msg00500.html

pki-bot commented 4 years ago

Comment from edewata (@edewata) at 2016-12-07 02:32:14

pki-bot commented 4 years ago

Comment from edewata (@edewata) at 2017-02-27 14:09:37

Metadata Update from @edewata:

Issue set to the milestone: 10.4

pki-bot commented 4 years ago

Comment from edewata (@edewata) at 2017-04-07 23:14:29

Metadata Update from @edewata:

Custom field feature adjusted to ''
Custom field proposedmilestone adjusted to ''
Custom field proposedpriority adjusted to ''
Custom field reviewer adjusted to ''
Custom field version adjusted to ''
Issue close_status updated to: None
Issue set to the milestone: FUTURE (was: 10.4)

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