I see.  Thanks for the help, I will give that a try first.  I do wish the
EPEL folks kept newer versions but they are sometimes behind on things.

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Martin Pala <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> please upgrade Monit - there were problems with client certificates based
> authentication, fixed in Monit 5.15.0. We recommend the latest release
> (5.22.0).
>
> Best regards,
> Martin
>
>
> > On 27 Apr 2017, at 20:04, Bryan Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I am using the Monit package from RHEL 7: monit-5.14-1.el7.x86_64, and
> running into an issue with client certificate authentication.
> >
> > I've tried two methods to setup client certificates and each way I get
> the error message in monit log.  The browser never asked me to select a
> certificate.
> >
> > SSL: client didn't send a client certificate
> >
> > In my first attempt, I exported one of my CAC certificates (it does not
> allow exporting the key, just the certificate).  It comes in DER format, so
> I converted to PEM and gave that file to monit.  I also used the
> ALLOWSELFCERTIFICATION option.
> >
> > OpenSSL commands:
> >
> > cd /etc/pki/tls/certs
> > openssl x509 -in mycert.der -inform der -out mycert.cer -outform pem
> >
> > Monit config like so:
> > set httpd port 443 and
> >     use address 192.168.80.130  # only accept connection from localhost
> >     ssl enable
> >     pemfile /etc/pki/tls/certs/server.cer
> >     clientpemfile /etc/pki/tls/certs/mycert.cer
> >     allowselfcertification
> >     allow admin:monit
> >
> > The browser did not ask me to supply a certificate and monit gave the
> error.
> >
> > SSL: client didn't send a client certificate
> >
> > In the next situation I generated my own CA and used it to sign a
> certificate.  That caused the same result: the browser never asked for a
> cert, and monit gave the error above.
> >
> > OpenSSL commands:
> >
> > cd /etc/pki/tls
> > openssl genrsa -out private/ca.key 4096
> > openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key private/ca.key -out certs/ca.cer
> > openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in misc/test.csr -CA certs/ca.cer -CAkey
> private/ca.key -set_serial 01 -out certs/test.cer
> >
> > Convert to p12 so I can import into Opera/Firefox/Chrome:
> >
> > openssl pkcs12 -export -in certs/test.cer -inkey private/test.key -out
> /home/sqltest/test.p12 -name "test"
> >
> > Monit config like so:
> >
> > set httpd port 443 and
> >     use address 192.168.80.130  # only accept connection from localhost
> >     ssl enable
> >     pemfile /etc/pki/tls/certs/server.cer
> >     clientpemfile /etc/pki/tls/certs/test.cer
> >     allowselfcertification
> >     allow admin:monit
> >
> > Anytime I try to connect (I have tried a few browsers) I only get the
> error message in the logs.  But the browser never lets me choose any cert I
> want to send.  It seems as if Monit is not asking for a cert in the first
> place.
> >
> > Does anybody have any ideas why this might happen?
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > V/r,
> > Bryan
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