On Dec 5, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Rob Crittenden <rcrit...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Michael Mercier wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> A few details to begin:
>> 
>> The IPA system consists of 3 servers running on fully patched CentOS 6.5 
>> (updated Monday night).  DNS is integrated with the IPA system.
>> 
>> ipa-*-3.0.0-37.
>> mod_nss-1.0.8-19
>> openssl-1.0.1e-16
>> 
>> 
>> The system was upgraded from 2.2
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Yesterday, I revoked a certificate for an old system and signed a 
>> certificate for the replacement system (same hostname) with no apparent 
>> issues.
>> 
>> Today, I am attempting to sign a certificate for a new system and I am 
>> seeing the following error from the command line (with debug=True in 
>> /etc/ipa/default.conf):
>> 
>> ipa cert-request <csrfile>
>> principal: <hostname>
>> 
>> ipa: ERROR: Certificate operation cannot be completed: Failure decoding 
>> Certificate Signing Request
>> 
>> The GUI responds with:
>> IPA ERROR 4310
>> Certificate operation cannot be completed: Failure decoding Certificate 
>> Signing Request
>> 
>> I have no issues running 'openssl req -text -noout -verify -in <csrfile>’ on 
>> the request file.
>> 
>> I did do a 'yum update’ on the system today (after experiencing the errors), 
>> with openssl and mod_nss being upgraded on all servers.  All systems were 
>> rebooted after the upgrade and the problem still exists.
>> 
>> I did see an older thread with a similar issue, but that seemed to involve 
>> updating expired certs and Rob did not seem to be able to reproduce the 
>> error.  Maybe I am experiencing the same problem?
>> 
>> Anyone have an idea where a good place to start looking is?
> 
> The Failure decoding is a duplicate error message in a couple of different 
> places. I'd recommend modifying it per the other thread so we can know 
> exactly where it failed and why.

Here is the exact message after applying the patch…

ipa: ERROR: Certificate operation cannot be completed: Failure decoding 
Certificate Signing Request: [Errno -8183] (SEC_ERROR_BAD_DER) security 
library: improperly formatted DER-encoded message.

Note: I used java keytool to create the CSR, could that be the problem?

Thanks,
Mike

> 
> rob

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