Justen Long via FreeIPA-users wrote:
Thanks in advance for your replies.. I've spent 7 hours looking through posts here and trying everything... I'm stuck.
Background: I am a System Administrator in a closed, classified environment. Unfortunately, I cannot post logging here, but I can refer to them as needed.
I inherited this system from someone who departed the program a year or so ago. Fast forward to today, the server certs expired yesterday. Admittedly, I'm unfamiliar (or was) with the certificate update process for IPA servers. On a typical server, we replace the old cert and restart the httpd services; however, I realize this cannot work with IPA servers now.
Additionally to all of this, the CA chain updated 6 months ago.
I ran ipa-cacert-manage to update the CA chain. When trying to run ipa-certupdate, I received errors for an invalid server certificate (it expired on 11 April 2023). It simply won't connect to the web server. HTTPD failed as well, so I had to add "NSSEnforceValidCerts off" to the nss.conf file for HTTPD to start. Still, no dice.
I've ran ipa-server-certinstall for the new cert/key as well, and it fails saying its not trusted ("Peer's certificate issuer is not trusted [certutil: certificate is invalid: Peer's Certificate issuer is not recognized] Please run ipa-cacert-manage install and ipa-certupdate to install the CA certificate.... which, as reported above, can't complete.
I'm at a total loss here... and really struggling being new to all this and trying my best to keep it afloat. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
Let's gather some information first.
What version of IPA is this, on what distribution?
IPA designates one server to be the "renewal master" which handles the renewals. The output of `ipa config-show` should tell you (depending on version). That's the server you want to work on.
How many servers in your topology and how many have a CA installed?
Does `getcert list` show a set of 8-10 tracked certificates? What are the states?
You mention ipa-server-certinstall. Are you using 3rd party certificates in addition to IPA CA-issued certificates or was that just an attempt to get things working again?
rob