Bug 1956550

It is failing while configuring the client parts on the server. Please attach /var/log/ipaclient-install.log as well.

Hello Rob,

Yes, the client part fails as well.
ipaclient-install-02930848.log is already attached, Comment 3

Let me know if you want it reattached.

Sorry, I loaded the BZ before all attachments had been made.

It is failing trying to add a certificate to /etc/ipa/nssdb, the shared IPA system NSS database. The certutil command-line is logged after obfuscating any possible secrets and it is failing in that obfuscation step on the upper-case eñe (unicode /xd1) in the issuer subject.

Can you provide the output of:

ldapsearch -x -D 'cn=directory manager' -W -b cn=certificates,cn=ipa,cn=etc,dc=example,dc=test

replacing the dc's with the appropriate values for your domain?

Issue can be reproduced on rhel 7.9 (with python2). The error happens when calling certutil to add the CA in the NSS databases. The parameter storing the nickname is a unicode and the method ipautil.run is expecting only string or bytes:
    arg_string = nolog_replace(' '.join(_log_arg(a) for a in args), nolog)

with the following definition for _log_arg:

if six.PY3:
    def _log_arg(s):
        """Convert string or bytes to a string suitable for logging"""
        if isinstance(s, bytes):
            return s.decode(locale.getpreferredencoding(),
                            errors='replace')
        else:
            return s
else:
    _log_arg = str

Since nickname is a utf-8 unicode, str(nickname) fails with encoding issue.

Upstream ticket:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/8879

Fixed upstream
ipa-4-6:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/c/82b4e8872c4890fd598a6e86924fd396810c845c
https://pagure.io/freeipa/c/f99067f4a34da4416d1877f63e257a8bec470bf5

Test case is available upstream in test_integration/test_caless.py::TestServerInstall::test_valid_certs

Verified :

2021-06-24T09:50:16 TASK [List installed IPA packages version] *************************************
2021-06-24T09:50:17 ok: [master.testrelm.test] => (item=ipa-server) => 
2021-06-24T09:50:17   msg:
2021-06-24T09:50:17   - arch: x86_64
2021-06-24T09:50:17     epoch: null
2021-06-24T09:50:17     name: ipa-server
2021-06-24T09:50:17     release: 5.el7_9.7
2021-06-24T09:50:17     source: rpm
2021-06-24T09:50:17     version: 4.6.8

2021-06-24T10:35:46 =========================== short test summary info ============================
2021-06-24T10:35:46 PASSED ipatests/test_integration/test_caless.py::TestServerInstall::test_nonexistent_ca_pem_file
2021-06-24T10:35:46 PASSED ipatests/test_integration/test_caless.py::TestServerInstall::test_unknown_ca
2021-06-24T10:35:46 PASSED ipatests/test_integration/test_caless.py::TestServerInstall::test_ca_server_cert
....
....
2021-06-24T10:35:46 PASSED ipatests/test_integration/test_caless.py::TestServerInstall::test_ds_intermediate_ca
2021-06-24T10:35:46 PASSED ipatests/test_integration/test_caless.py::TestServerInstall::test_ca_self_signed
2021-06-24T10:35:46 PASSED ipatests/test_integration/test_caless.py::TestServerInstall::test_valid_certs

Based on this marking bug as verified.

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 (ipa bug fix and enhancement update), 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-2021:2807