Bug 1493531

Summary:	In case full PKINIT configuration is failing during server/replica install the error message should be more meaningful.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Thorsten Scherf <tscherf>
Component:	ipa	Assignee:	IPA Maintainers <ipa-maint>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	ipa-qe <ipa-qe>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	7.4	CC:	aslaikov, fbarreto, ksiddiqu, msauton, myusuf, pasik, pvoborni, rcritten, tscherf
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	ZStream
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	ipa-4.5.4-1.el7	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Clones:	1506528 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2018-04-10 16:46:13 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Thorsten Scherf 2017-09-20 12:15:27 UTC

Description of problem:
When ipa-replica-installed is executed, part of the configuration is to setup PKINIT. In case an IPA CA exists in the topology and the installer has not been executed with --no-pkinit, an IPA CA signed certificate for the KDC is requested through certmonger. In case the CA is not reachable, certmonger creates a self-signed certificate for the KDC. The error message shown on the screen is confusing, because it says that PKINIT onfiguration failed in total:

ERROR    PKINIT certificate request failed: Certificate issuance failed (CA_UNREACHABLE)                                                        
ERROR    Failed to configure PKINIT    

Here we should better say that full PKINIT configuration failed but local PKINIT has been configured with a self-signed KDC certificate.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ipa-server-4.5.0-21.el7_4.1.2.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Aleksei Slaikovskii 2017-10-04 08:28:20 UTC

Hello, thought it will be very useful to have steps to reproduce here for a further process.

Steps to reproduce:
  1. Get machines for master and replica e.g. with Fedora 25
  2. Add freeipa 4.5 copr:
> # dnf copr enable @freeipa/freeipa-4.5
  3. Update machines and install ipa-server:
> # dnf update -y && dnf install ipa-server
  4. Install master, e.g.:
> master # ipa-server-install --setup-dns --auto-forwarders
  5. Add a breakpoint to /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/krbinstance.py at line 492 right after method definition on replica machine:
> 491: def issue_ipa_ca_signed_pkinit_certs(self):
> 492:     import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
  6. Run replica installation:
> replica # ipa-client-install
> replica # ipa-replica-install
  7. Wait until it will hit a breakpoint and then stop pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat service on master
> master # systemctl stop pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat
  8. Continue execution on replica.

Actual results:
> ipa         : ERROR    PKINIT certificate request failed: Certificate issuance failed (CA_UNREACHABLE)
> ipa         : ERROR    Failed to configure PKINIT

Expected results:
> Here we should better say that full PKINIT configuration failed but local PKINIT has been configured with a self-signed KDC certificate.

Comment 2 Petr Vobornik 2017-10-16 08:54:16 UTC

Upstream ticket: https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/7179

Comment 3 Tomas Krizek 2017-10-18 09:52:54 UTC

Fixed upstream
ipa-4-5:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/c/c79cdccfa2361f013fb51e8225b4630abab8b557
ipa-4-6:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/c/f8e6c997b54564533250e536fbe250f460035235
master:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/c/7a3da27816f62240cebbac72de5c98a96ace0794

Comment 7 Mohammad Rizwan 2017-11-21 14:01:57 UTC

verified using steps provided in comment#1


Version:
ipa-server-4.5.4-4.el7.x86_64

Actual result:

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.....
Done configuring certificate server (pki-tomcatd).
Configuring Kerberos KDC (krb5kdc)
  [1/1]: installing X509 Certificate for PKINIT
Full PKINIT configuration did not succeed
The setup will only install bits essential to the server functionality
You can enable PKINIT after the setup completed using 'ipa-pkinit-manage'
Done configuring Kerberos KDC (krb5kdc).
Applying LDAP updates
Upgrading IPA:. Estimated time: 1 minute 30 seconds
  [1/9]: stopping directory server
  [2/9]: saving configuration
....
....

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 16:46:13 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0918