Martin Kosek wrote:
On 10/04/2012 06:17 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
This changes the way IPA generates CRLs for new installs only.
The first master installed is configured as the CRL generator. An entry is
added to cn=masters that designates it.
When a replica is installed it queries this entry so it knows where to forward
CRL requests. CRL files are not available on cloned CAs (so /ipa/crl will
return not found). It is possible to get a CRL directly from the clone CA via
http://<hostname>:9180/ca/ee/ca/getCRL?op=getCRL&crlIssuingPoint=MasterCRL
rob
I tested new IPA server + replica with your patch and the CRL was now generated
only on the CRL master. I also tried OCSP (though this may not be relevant) and
it worked for me too.
1) I do not understand the following block in set_crl_master(self, suffix):
+ try:
+ self.admin_conn.addEntry(entry)
+ except ldap.ALREADY_EXISTS, e:
+ root_logger.debug("failed to set CA as CRL generator")
+ raise e
- when we hit ldap.ALREADY_EXISTS, we are actually OK because cn=CRL is set,
right?
- AFAIK, addEntry should return our errors, i.e. errors.DuplicateEntry
- s/raise e/raise/
I think you may have wanted to rather catch for more general LDAP error and
then report a real error and not just a debug note.
2) In get_crl_master:
+ except Exception, e:
+ root_logger.debug("Could not connect to the Directory Server on
%s: %s" % (master_host, str(e)))
+ raise e
s/raise e/raise/
+ except errors.NotFound, e:
+ root_logger.debug("failed to find CA CRL generator")
+ self.crl_master = None
- e is actually not used, "except errors.NotFound" would be enough
3) Majorish issue I hit with the actual CRL publishing on our server (F17). I
always get 403 Forbidden error when trying to download CRL from the CRL master:
# wget --ca-certificate /etc/ipa/ca.crt https://`hostname`/ipa/crl/MasterCRL.bin
--2012-10-05 03:32:58--
https://vm-120.idm.lab.bos.redhat.com/ipa/crl/MasterCRL.bin
Resolving vm-120.idm.lab.bos.redhat.com... 10.16.78.120
Connecting to vm-120.idm.lab.bos.redhat.com|10.16.78.120|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2012-10-05 03:32:58 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
I tracked the problem down to too strict permission on /var/lib/pki-ca
directory which is being published by httpd which does not have access to it:
# ll /var/lib/pki-ca
drwxrwx---. 11 pkiuser pkiuser 4096 Oct 5 03:00 pki-ca
When I fixed the permission:
# chmod o+x /var/lib/pki-ca/
I was able to get pass the Forbidden error and actually retrieved the CRL.
Adding Ade on CC list to follow on this permission issue.
I was thinking about usability of this new approach, we may want to make user
life easier in a perspective of CRL master managing. I have following
enhancements in mind:
- mark CRL master in ipa-replica-manage list, or ipa-csreplica-manage list:
# ipa-csreplica-manage list
Directory Manager password:
vm-065.idm.lab.bos.redhat.com: master [CRL]
vm-120.idm.lab.bos.redhat.com: master
- when removing master with CRL by "ipa-replica-manage del" we should warn user
and inform him what he should do next to amend the situation. I am thinking
about 2 new commands for ipa-csreplica-manage:
* ipa-csreplica-manage crl-promote
- promote current master as the new CRL master, enable CRL generation in
CS.cfg, mark master as the new CRL master in cn=masters
* ipa-csreplica-manage crl-update
- update CS.cfg of current CA replica and point master.ca.agent.* to current
CRL master
I can work on those enhancements if we agree on them.
Martin
Andrew provided some feedback out-of-band and my solution was overly
complex. Here is a much simpler patch which does away with all the
hand-waving around knowing who the CRL generator is.
rob
>From 06153bc8b809ef52c2999657e280e424b1135552 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Crittenden <rcrit...@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 10:40:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Configure the initial CA as the CRL generator.
Any installed clones will have CRL generation explicitly disabled.
It is a manual process to make a different CA the CRL generator.
There should be only one.
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3051
---
ipaserver/install/cainstance.py | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ipaserver/install/cainstance.py b/ipaserver/install/cainstance.py
index c37c261f2933f5c9c4eb3b2133fca638716eb59d..30a8274a6bff874e6ff50f1f090c41074cca662d 100644
--- a/ipaserver/install/cainstance.py
+++ b/ipaserver/install/cainstance.py
@@ -1238,6 +1238,18 @@ class CAInstance(service.Service):
'https://%s/ipa/crl/MasterCRL.bin' % ipautil.format_netloc(self.fqdn),
quotes=False, separator='=')
+ # If we are the initial master then we are the CRL generator, otherwise
+ # we point to that master for CRLs.
+ if not self.clone:
+ # These next two are defaults, but I want to be explicit that the
+ # initial master is the CRL generator.
+ installutils.set_directive(caconfig, 'ca.crl.MasterCRL.enableCRLCache', 'true', quotes=False, separator='=')
+ installutils.set_directive(caconfig, 'ca.crl.MasterCRL.enableCRLUpdates', 'true', quotes=False, separator='=')
+ installutils.set_directive(caconfig, 'ca.listenToCloneModifications', 'true', quotes=False, separator='=')
+ else:
+ installutils.set_directive(caconfig, 'ca.crl.MasterCRL.enableCRLCache', 'false', quotes=False, separator='=')
+ installutils.set_directive(caconfig, 'ca.crl.MasterCRL.enableCRLUpdates', 'false', quotes=False, separator='=')
+
def __set_subject_in_config(self):
# dogtag ships with an IPA-specific profile that forces a subject
# format. We need to update that template with our base subject
--
1.7.11.4
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