External CA signing is a 2-step process. You first have to run the IPA
installer which will generate a CSR. You pass this CSR to your external
CA and get back a cert. You then pass this cert and the CA cert and
re-run the installer. The CSR is always written to /root/ipa.csr.
A run would look like:
# ipa-server-install --ca --external-ca -p password -a password -r EXAMPLE.COM -u dirsrv -n example.com --hostname=ipa.example.com -U
[ sign cert request ]
# ipa-server-install --ca --external-ca -p password -a password --external_cert_file=/tmp/rob.crt --external_ca_file=/tmp/cacert.crt -U -p password -a password -r EXAMPLE.COM -u dirsrv -n example.com --hostname=ipa.example.com
This also abstracts out the RA backend plugin so the self-signed CA we
create can be used in a running server. This means that the cert plugin
can request certs (and nothing else). This should let us do online replica
creation.
To handle the self-signed CA the simple ca_serialno file now contains
additional data so we don't have overlapping serial numbers in replicas.
This isn't used yet. Currently the cert plugin will not work on self-signed
replicas.
One very important change for self-signed CAs is that the CA is no longer
held in the DS database. It is now in the Apache database.
Lots of general fixes were also made in ipaserver.install.certs including:
- better handling when multiple CA certificates are in a single file
- A temporary directory for request certs is not always created when the
class is instantiated (you have to call setup_cert_request())
If you don't want to use ldapi then you can remove the ldap_uri setting
in /etc/ipa/default.conf. The default for the framework is to use
ldap://localhost:389/
ldap2.find_entries now returns a tuple containing 2 values. First,
a list of entries (dn, entry_attrs), Second, the truncated flag. If
the truncated flag is True, search results hit a server limitation
and are incomplete.
This patch also removes decoding of non-string scalar python types into
unicode (they are left unchanged).
If we use cn for hostname there is no easy way to distinguish between
a host and a hostgroup. So adding a fqdn attribute to be used to store
the hostname instead.
Once this is committed we can start the process of renaming errors2 as errors.
I thought that combinig this into one commit would be more difficult to
review.
The CA is currently not automatically installed. You have to pass in the
--ca flag to install it.
What works:
- installation
- unistallation
- cert/ra plugins can issue and retrieve server certs
What doesn't work:
- self-signed CA is still created and issues Apache and DS certs
- dogtag and python-nss not in rpm requires
- requires that CS be in the "pre" install state from pkicreate
This change depends on DS bugs 487574 and 487725. Groups cannot be
promoted properly without these fixed. It will fail with an
Object Class violation because gidNumber isn't set.
Rob Crittenden
Pavel Zuna
root
Jason Gerard DeRose
Jakub Hrozek