Martin Kosek wrote:
On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 10:22 +0200, Martin Kosek wrote:
On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 16:47 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
Rob Crittenden wrote:
Martin Kosek wrote:
On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 10:45 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
Rob Crittenden wrote:
Martin Kosek wrote:
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 15:36 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
Rob Crittenden wrote:
Martin Kosek wrote:
On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 17:40 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
Certmonger will currently automatically renew server
certificates but
doesn't restart the services so you can still end up with expired
certificates if you services never restart.

This patch registers are restart command with certmonger so the
IPA
services will automatically be restarted to get the updated cert.

Easy to test. Install IPA then resubmit the current server
certs and
watch the services restart:

# ipa-getcert list

Find the ID for either your dirsrv or httpd instance

# ipa-getcert resubmit -i<ID>

Watch /var/log/httpd/error_log or
/var/log/dirsrv/slapd-INSTANCE/errors
to see the service restart.

rob

What about current instances - can we/do we want to update
certmonger
tracking so that their instances are restarted as well?

Anyway, I found few issues SELinux issues with the patch:

1) # rpm -Uvh freeipa-*
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:freeipa-python ########################################### [ 20%]
2:freeipa-client ########################################### [ 40%]
3:freeipa-admintools ########################################### [
60%]
4:freeipa-server ########################################### [ 80%]
/usr/bin/chcon: failed to change context of
`/usr/lib64/ipa/certmonger' to
`unconfined_u:object_r:certmonger_unconfined_exec_t:s0': Invalid
argument
/usr/bin/chcon: failed to change context of
`/usr/lib64/ipa/certmonger/restart_dirsrv' to
`unconfined_u:object_r:certmonger_unconfined_exec_t:s0': Invalid
argument
/usr/bin/chcon: failed to change context of
`/usr/lib64/ipa/certmonger/restart_httpd' to
`unconfined_u:object_r:certmonger_unconfined_exec_t:s0': Invalid
argument
warning: %post(freeipa-server-2.1.90GIT5b895af-0.fc16.x86_64)
scriptlet failed, exit status 1
5:freeipa-server-selinux
###########################################
[100%]

certmonger_unconfined_exec_t type was unknown with my selinux
policy:

selinux-policy-3.10.0-80.fc16.noarch
selinux-policy-targeted-3.10.0-80.fc16.noarch

If we need a higher SELinux version, we should bump the required
package
version spec file.

Yeah, waiting on it to be backported.


2) Change of SELinux context with /usr/bin/chcon is temporary until
restorecon or system relabel occurs. I think we should make it
persistent and enforce this type in our SELinux policy and
rather call
restorecon instead of chcon

That's a good idea, why didn't I think of that :-(

Ah, now I remember, it will be handled by selinux-policy. I would
have
used restorecon here but since the policy isn't there yet this seemed
like a good idea.

I'm trying to find out the status of this new policy, it may only
make
it into F-17.

rob

Ok. But if this policy does not go in F-16 and if we want this fix in
F16 release too, I guess we would have to implement both approaches in
our spec file:

1) When on F16, include SELinux policy for restart scripts + run
restorecon
2) When on F17, do not include the SELinux policy (+ run restorecon)

Martin


Won't work without updated selinux-policy. Without the permission for
certmonger to execute the commands things will still fail (just in
really non-obvious and far in the future ways).

It looks like this is fixed in F-17 selinux-policy-3.10.0-107.

rob

Updated patch which works on F-17.

rob

What about F-16? The restart scripts won't work with enabled enforcing
and will raise AVCs. Maybe we really need to deliver our own SELinux
policy allowing it on F-16.

Right, I don't see this working on F-16. I don't really want to carry
this type of policy. It goes beyond marking a few files as certmonger_t,
it is going to let certmonger execute arbitrary scripts. This is best
left to the SELinux team who understand the consequences better.


I also found an issue with the restart scripts:

1) restart_dirsrv: this won't work with systemd:

# /sbin/service dirsrv restart
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart dirsrv.service
Failed to issue method call: Unit dirsrv.service failed to load: No such
file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dirsrv.service'
for details.

Wouldn't work so hot for sysV either as we'd be restarting all
instances. I'll take a look.

We would need to pass an instance of IPA dirsrv for this to work.

2) restart_httpd:
Is reload enough for httpd to pull a new certificate? Don't we need a
full restart? If reload is enough, I think the command should be named
reload_httpd

Yes, it causes the modules to be reloaded which will reload the NSS
database, that's all we need. I named it this way for consistency. I can
rename it, though I doubt it would cause any confusion either way.

rob

revised patch.

rob

Thanks, this is better, dirsrv restart is now fixed. I still have few
issues:

1) Wrong command for httpd certs (should be reload_httpd):

-            db.track_server_cert(nickname, self.principal,
db.passwd_fname)
+            db.track_server_cert(nickname, self.principal,
db.passwd_fname, 'restart_httpd')

-            db.track_server_cert("Server-Cert", self.principal,
db.passwd_fname)
+            db.track_server_cert("Server-Cert", self.principal,
db.passwd_fname, 'restart_httpd')


2) What about current certmonger monitored certs? We can use the command
Nalin suggested to modify existing monitored certs to set up a restart
command:

# ipa-getcert list
...
Request ID '20120404083924':
        status: MONITORING
        stuck: no
        key pair storage:
type=NSSDB,location='/etc/httpd/alias',nickname='Server-Cert',token='NSS
Certificate DB',pinfile='/etc/httpd/alias/pwdfile.txt'
        certificate:
type=NSSDB,location='/etc/httpd/alias',nickname='Server-Cert',token='NSS
Certificate DB'
        CA: IPA
        issuer: CN=Certificate Authority,O=IDM.LAB.BOS.REDHAT.COM
        subject: CN=vm-079.idm.lab.bos.redhat.com,O=IDM.LAB.BOS.REDHAT.COM
        expires: 2014-04-05 08:39:24 UTC
        eku: id-kp-serverAuth,id-kp-clientAuth
        command:
        track: yes
        auto-renew: yes

# ipa-getcert start-tracking -i 20120404083924 -C 
/usr/lib64/ipa/certmonger/reload_httpd
Request "20120404083924" modified.

# ipa-getcert list
Request ID '20120404083924':
        status: MONITORING
        stuck: no
        key pair storage:
type=NSSDB,location='/etc/httpd/alias',nickname='Server-Cert',token='NSS
Certificate DB',pinfile='/etc/httpd/alias/pwdfile.txt'
        certificate:
type=NSSDB,location='/etc/httpd/alias',nickname='Server-Cert',token='NSS
Certificate DB'
        CA: IPA
        issuer: CN=Certificate Authority,O=IDM.LAB.BOS.REDHAT.COM
        subject: CN=vm-079.idm.lab.bos.redhat.com,O=IDM.LAB.BOS.REDHAT.COM
        expires: 2014-04-05 08:39:24 UTC
        eku: id-kp-serverAuth,id-kp-clientAuth
        command: /usr/lib64/ipa/certmonger/reload_httpd
        track: yes
        auto-renew: yes

3) The new dirsrv service restart command does not work either with
systemd:
# service dirsrv restart IDM-LAB-BOS-REDHAT-COM

I think the approach here would be to take advantage of our system
service management abstraction that ipactl uses. It will then work well
with SysV, systemd or any other future configurations or ports to other
Linux distributions. Example of the script which restarts the required
instance:

# cat /tmp/restart_dirsrv
#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
from ipapython import services as ipaservices

try:
     instance = sys.argv[1]
except IndexError:
     instance = ""

dirsrv = ipaservices.knownservices.dirsrv
dirsrv.restart(instance)

# /tmp/restart_dirsrv IDM-LAB-BOS-REDHAT-COM

Martin


I prepared a rebased and fixed patch which works on both SystemV and
systemd systems, please check attached file.

The patch does not include updating existing certs, it would need more
time to implement a safe update that it is not available this late in
the game. We may want to create a ticket to add a documentation about
how to update existing certs + RFE for add a support of updating
existing certs later.

Martin

This works fine. We'll address existing certs in the future.

ACK, pushed to master and ipa-2-2

rob

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