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Bug 1456607 - ipa-server-certinstall mangles arguments to certutil
Summary: ipa-server-certinstall mangles arguments to certutil
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: freeipa
Version: 25
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomas Krizek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-05-29 20:47 UTC by James
Modified: 2017-12-12 10:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-12-12 10:47:28 UTC
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Description James 2017-05-29 20:47:09 UTC 
Description of problem:
I was attempting to update my IPA (web) server's certificate with:

  ipa-server-certinstall -v -w new-cert.pem

but I keep getting:

ipa: DEBUG: Starting external process
ipa: DEBUG: args=/usr/bin/certutil -d /etc/httpd/alias -D -n 'skipper.cb.ettle'
ipa: DEBUG: Process finished, return code=255
ipa: DEBUG: stdout=
ipa: DEBUG: stderr=certutil: could not find certificate named "'skipper.cb.ettle'": SEC_ERROR_BAD_DATABASE: security library: bad database.

ipa.ipaserver.install.ipa_server_certinstall.ServerCertInstall: DEBUG:   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipapython/admintool.py", line 172, in execute
    return_value = self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/ipa_server_certinstall.py", line 113, in run
    self.install_http_cert()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/ipa_server_certinstall.py", line 145, in install_http_cert
    'restart_httpd')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/ipa_server_certinstall.py", line 211, in import_cert
    cdb.delete_cert(old_cert)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/certs.py", line 493, in delete_cert
    self.nssdb.delete_cert(nickname)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipapython/certdb.py", line 487, in delete_cert
    self.run_certutil(["-D", "-n", nick])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipapython/certdb.py", line 142, in run_certutil
    return ipautil.run(new_args, stdin, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipapython/ipautil.py", line 515, in run
    raise CalledProcessError(p.returncode, arg_string, str(output))

ipa.ipaserver.install.ipa_server_certinstall.ServerCertInstall: DEBUG: The ipa-server-certinstall command failed, exception: CalledProcessError: Command '/usr/bin/certutil -d /etc/httpd/alias -D -n 'skipper.cb.ettle'' returned non-zero exit status 255
ipa.ipaserver.install.ipa_server_certinstall.ServerCertInstall: ERROR: Command '/usr/bin/certutil -d /etc/httpd/alias -D -n 'skipper.cb.ettle'' returned non-zero exit status 255
ipa.ipaserver.install.ipa_server_certinstall.ServerCertInstall: ERROR: The ipa-server-certinstall command failed.


This seems to be to do with the '' around the host name (skipper.cb.ettle). If I hack /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/ipa_server_certinstall.py in install_http_cert to strip the '', the cert seems to update OK.

(Note though now when I do /usr/bin/certutil -d /etc/httpd/alias -L I see a full  "E=...CN=..." nickname, so I might have inadvertently bodged up my nssdb....)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
freeipa-server-4.4.4-1.fc25.x86_64
Comment 1 Martin Babinsky 2017-05-30 11:32:42 UTC 
Hi Jim,

I think you hit https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/6460 which was fixed in FreeIPA 4.5 that was released to Fedora Rawhide.
Comment 2 James 2017-05-30 17:28:17 UTC 
Any chance of a backport to 4.4?
Comment 3 Tomas Krizek 2017-05-31 07:19:48 UTC 
The patch from comment#1 applies cleanly to 4.4, the backport should be easy. 

Upstream ticket: https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/6991
Comment 4 Petr Vobornik 2017-06-16 15:25:24 UTC 
ipa-4-4:

    e4363c5c26982f9126e7df16ba7a1a060cdb8721 Fix the installutils.set_directive docstring
    e40f9a5183fc3ebe160ea6b6ae4fb5c3190c1462 installutils: improve directive value parsing in get_directive
    67c8f5fd4e50283e7680e7ded142e3234c7ab5f1 Delegate directive value quoting/unquoting to separate functions
    60a05de4122a26f3a9d148b8c014668d296229fc Explicitly handle quoting/unquoting of NSSNickname directive
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2017-06-29 09:26:59 UTC 
freeipa-4.4.4-3.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-7f9288e6d7
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2017-06-29 16:42:13 UTC 
freeipa-4.4.4-4.fc25 softhsm-2.2.0-2.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-30c570630b
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2017-06-29 16:42:41 UTC 
freeipa-4.4.4-4.fc25 softhsm-2.2.0-2.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-30c570630b
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2017-06-30 02:25:09 UTC 
freeipa-4.4.4-4.fc25, softhsm-2.2.0-2.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-30c570630b
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