Document URL: 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/System_Administrators_Guide/sect-Configuring-SSL-Certificates-for-OpenPegasus.html


Section Number and Name: 
19.3.2. Managing Authority-signed Certificates with Identity Management (Recommended)

Describe the issue:
We tell people to run the following certmonger command to request a service certificate from IdM:

# ipa-getcert request -f /etc/Pegasus/server.pem -k /etc/Pegasus/file.pem -N CN=hostname -K CIMOM/hostname

This can't work because certmonger is not allowed to access to /etc/Pegasus:

# ausearch -m AVC -c certmonger
----
time->Mon Feb 15 11:09:19 2016
type=AVC msg=audit(1455552559.959:264): avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=3208 comm="certmonger" path="/etc/Pegasus" dev="dm-0" ino=101728256 scontext=system_u:system_r:certmonger_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:pegasus_conf_t:s0 tclass=dir permissive=0

This is because of:

# ls -ldZ /etc/Pegasus/
drwxr-x---. 2 root pegasus system_u:object_r:pegasus_conf_t:s0 206 Feb 15 11:18 /etc/Pegasus/

# sesearch --allow -s certmonger_t -t pegasus_conf_t -c dir

We should better instruct people to write the certificate and the key file to the proper place underneath /etc/pki and adjust Pegasus configuration accordingly:

# sesearch --allow -s certmonger_t -t cert_t -c dir 
   allow certmonger_t cert_type : dir { ioctl read write getattr lock add_name remove_name search open } ; 


Suggestions for improvement: 

We should better instruct people to write the certificate and the key file to the proper place underneath /etc/pki and adjust Pegasus configuration accordingly:

# sesearch --allow -s certmonger_t -t cert_t -c dir 
   allow certmonger_t cert_type : dir { ioctl read write getattr lock add_name remove_name search open } ; 

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