Hi,

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 4:45 PM Rob Crittenden via FreeIPA-users <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Jernej Jakob via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> > I've been trying to debug this for the last couple of days. I can't
> > find what's wrong. I found that another client whose cert also expired
> > on 2023-06-07 was in the same SUBMITTING state. The same exact
> > conditions. Same exact OS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. certmonger package is
> > up-to-date.
> >
> > I increased certmonger debug level to 6.
>
> I'd suggest 3. 6 will include a lot of unnecessary dbus noise.
>
> > I also changed in /var/lib/certmonger/cas/20141205060547-3
> > ca_external_helper=/usr/lib/certmonger/dogtag-ipa-renew-agent-submit
> > to
> > ca_external_helper=/usr/lib/certmonger/dogtag-ipa-renew-agent-submit -v
>
> That is the wrong certmonger CA. You want the IPA CA helper. This one is
> for renewing the CA certificates itself. And yes CA here is an
> overloaded term.
>
> > The logs are attached.
> >
> > What I find weird is that on line 180:
> > GET "http://redacted.example.com:9180/ca/ee/ca/profileList?xml=true";
> > this is the client's address, not the ipa-ca server's.
>
> Can you check the output of "getcert list-cas -c IPA"? What is the
content of /etc/certmonger/certmonger.conf?
Does /etc/ipa/default.conf contain a line with dogtag_version = <some
value> ?

flo

> Perhaps check the values in /etc/ipa/default.conf.
>
> > I found these that may or may not be related
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=955530
> >
> https://salsa.debian.org/freeipa-team/certmonger/-/blob/debian/0.79.9-2/debian/patches/Revert-Don-t-close-STDERR-when-submitting-request.patch
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/certmonger/+bug/1875227
> >
> > Any ideas on what to do next?
> >
> > On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:38:46 +0200
> > Jernej Jakob <[email protected]> (by way of Jernej Jakob
> > <[email protected]>) wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, I have a client whose host certificate expired on 2023-06-07.
> >> Today I logged into the FreeIPA webui and went to the certificates page
> >> which was very slow to load. I had this problem before when there was
> >> one host (a different one) stuck in a certificate request loop, so I
> >> immediately suspected the same thing happened again. Sure enough, there
> >> are >3000 certificates for this host listed in IPA.
> >> Running 'getcert list' on the host shows:
> >>
> >> Number of certificates and requests being tracked: 1.
> >> Request ID '20190703221417':
> >>         status: SUBMITTING
> >>         stuck: no
> >>         key pair storage:
> type=NSSDB,location='/etc/ipa/nssdb',nickname='Local IPA host',token='NSS
> Certificate DB',pinfile='/etc/ipa/nssdb/pwdfile.txt'
> >>         certificate:
> type=NSSDB,location='/etc/ipa/nssdb',nickname='Local IPA host',token='NSS
> Certificate DB'
> >>         CA: IPA
> >>         issuer: CN=Certificate Authority,O=EXAMPLE.COM
> >>         subject: CN=redacted.example.com,O=EXAMPLE.com
> >>         expires: 2023-06-07 00:14:30 CEST
> >>         dns: redacted.example.com
> >>         principal name: host/[email protected]
> >>         key usage:
> digitalSignature,nonRepudiation,keyEncipherment,dataEncipherment
> >>         eku: id-kp-serverAuth,id-kp-clientAuth
> >>         pre-save command:
> >>         post-save command:
> >>         track: yes
> >>         auto-renew: yes
> >>
> >> I stopped certmonger to stop the loop. Then checked if the problem was
> >> the same as on that other host some time ago, but it was not.
> >> I saw one error in syslog (this turned out to not be the issue):
> >>
> >> "Server at https://ipa1.example.com/ipa/xml failed request, will
> retry: -504 (libcurl failed to execute the HTTP POST transaction,
> explaining:  Could not resolve host: ipa1.example.com)."
> >>
> >> That is a server that has been shut down. It was the first server I
> >> installed IPA onto, which had a replica ipa2. That was on CentOS 7.
> >> This year I migrated to Rocky 8 by adding two new clients, ipa3 and
> >> ipa4, following the official procedure by promoting each client to a
> >> replica, set ipa3 as CA renewal master, and so on. Then after that was
> >> done I removed the old servers from replication, shut down IPA services,
> >> unenrolled them and updated all SRV records in DNS. I forgot about
> >> A/AAAA ipa-ca, which was left pointing at two addresses, that of ipa1
> >> and ipa3.
> >>
> >> It's weird becase it can obviously contact and obtain a certificate
> >> from ipa3, whose logs contain these successful issuances. It could
> >> contact it on 2023-06-07, when the ipa-ca record was still pointing to
> >> both the ipa1 and ipa3 servers.
> >> On 2023-06-09 I dist-upgraded both ipa3/4 servers, at which time I also
> >> found the incorrect ipa-ca A/AAAA records (coincidentally as I was
> >> configuring a smart card CA certificate), so I corrected it. But the
> >> failing certmonger client still kept failing which makes me believe
> >> it was not the fault of the incorrect ipa-ca records.
> >>
> >> I searched around on the "redacted.example.com" for ipa1. It's not in
> >> /var/lib/certmonger/requests/20190703221417 (the failing request)
> >> but it is in /etc/ipa/default.conf:
> >>
> >> server = ipa1.example.com
> >> xmlrpc_uri = https://ipa1.example.com/ipa/xml
> >>
> >> I changed these values to ipa3 now, started certmonger and resubmitted
> >> the request. Unfortunately no change. That libcurl error for ipa1 is
> >> gone now:
> >>
> >> Jun 16 15:28:01 redacted certmonger[2091940]: 2023-06-16 15:28:01
> [2091940] Token is named "NSS Generic Crypto Services", not "NSS
> Certificate DB", skipping.
> >> Jun 16 15:28:01 redacted certmonger[2091940]: 2023-06-16 15:28:01
> [2091940] Unable to initialize NSS.
> >> Jun 16 15:28:01 redacted certmonger[2091941]: 2023-06-16 15:28:01
> [2091941] Setting "CERTMONGER_REQ_SUBJECT" to "CN=redacted.example.com,O=
> EXAMPLE.COM" for child.
> >> Jun 16 15:28:01 redacted certmonger[2091941]: 2023-06-16 15:28:01
> [2091941] Setting "CERTMONGER_REQ_PRINCIPAL" to "host/
> [email protected]" for child.
> >> Jun 16 15:28:01 redacted certmonger[2091941]: 2023-06-16 15:28:01
> [2091941] Setting "CERTMONGER_OPERATION" to "SUBMIT" for child.
> >> Jun 16 15:28:01 redacted certmonger[2091941]: 2023-06-16 15:28:01
> [2091941] Setting "CERTMONGER_CSR" to "-----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE
> REQUEST-----
> >> Jun 16 15:28:01 redacted certmonger[2091941]: ...redacted..." for child.
> >> Jun 16 15:28:01 redacted certmonger[2091941]: 2023-06-16 15:28:01
> [2091941] Setting "CERTMONGER_SPKAC" to ...redacted...
> >> Jun 16 15:28:01 redacted certmonger[2091941]: 2023-06-16 15:28:01
> [2091941] Setting "CERTMONGER_SPKI" to ...redacted...
> >> Jun 16 15:28:01 redacted certmonger[2091941]: 2023-06-16 15:28:01
> [2091941] Setting "CERTMONGER_LOCAL_CA_DIR" to "/var/lib/certmonger/local"
> for child.
> >> Jun 16 15:28:01 redacted certmonger[2091941]: 2023-06-16 15:28:01
> [2091941] Setting "CERTMONGER_KEY_TYPE" to "RSA" for child.
> >> Jun 16 15:28:01 redacted certmonger[2091941]: 2023-06-16 15:28:01
> [2091941] Setting "CERTMONGER_CA_NICKNAME" to "IPA" for child.
> >> Jun 16 15:28:01 redacted certmonger[2091941]: 2023-06-16 15:28:01
> [2091941] Setting "CERTMONGER_CERTIFICATE" to "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
> >> Jun 16 15:28:01 redacted certmonger[2091941]: ...redacted..." for child.
> >> Jun 16 15:28:01 redacted certmonger[2091941]: 2023-06-16 15:28:01
> [2091941] Redirecting stdin and stderr to /dev/null, leaving stdout open
> for child "/usr/lib/certmonger/ipa-submit".
> >>
> >> At this point it just keeps repeating the same over and over again.
> >>
> >> I would appreciate any help. Thanks.
> >
> >
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