[Freeipa-users] handling certificate expirations

[Grant Janssen]

When I upgraded the servers to EL8 (I rebuilt from scratch using the old hostnames), I had
neglected to assign an IPA CA renewal master after the old “boss” was retired.
This crime is of course it’s own punishment.

I found the documentation for handling this to actually be pretty good.
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/...

fraser’s blog was also helpful (in confirming I executed this correctly)
https://frasertweedale.github.io/blog-redhat/posts/2019-05-24-ipa-cert-fi...

I progressed through the other three IPA servers, but the last one still has a bad
expiration on the CA cert.

[root@ef-idm01 ~]# date
Wed Feb 14 07:08:38 PST 2024
[root@ef-idm01 ~]# getcert list | egrep '^Request|status:|subject:|expir'
Request ID '20230530175932':
        status: MONITORING
        subject:
CN=ef-idm01.production.efilm.com<http://ef-idm01.production.efilm.com>,O=PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM<http://PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM>
        expires: 2025-05-30 10:59:53 PDT
Request ID '20230530180022':
        status: MONITORING
        subject:
CN=ef-idm01.production.efilm.com<http://ef-idm01.production.efilm.com>,O=PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM<http://PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM>
        expires: 2025-05-30 11:00:30 PDT
Request ID '20230530180438':
        status: NEED_CA
        subject: CN=IPA RA,O=PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM<http://PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM>
        expires: 2024-01-02 07:58:28 PST
[root@ef-idm01 ~]# ipa-cert-fix

                          WARNING

ipa-cert-fix is intended for recovery when expired certificates
prevent the normal operation of IPA.  It should ONLY be used
in such scenarios, and backup of the system, especially certificates
and keys, is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.


The following certificates will be renewed:

IPA IPA RA certificate:
  Subject: CN=IPA RA,O=PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM<http://PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM>
  Serial:  162
  Expires: 2024-01-02 15:58:28

Enter "yes" to proceed: yes
Proceeding.
Renewed IPA IPA RA certificate:
  Subject: CN=IPA RA,O=PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM<http://PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM>
  Serial:  1341915142
  Expires: 2026-02-03 20:18:20

Becoming renewal master.
Restarting IPA

Note: Monitor the certmonger-initiated renewal of
certificates after ipa-cert-fix and wait for its completion before
any other administrative task.

The ipa-cert-fix command was successful
[root@ef-idm01 ~]#

I checked the cert expiration several times yesterday, but it never updated on this
server.
I waited a full day to let certmonger do its thing, below is my result this morning.

[root@ef-idm01 ~]# ipactl restart
Restarting Directory Service
Restarting krb5kdc Service
Restarting kadmin Service
Restarting httpd Service
Restarting ipa-custodia Service
Restarting pki-tomcatd Service
Restarting ipa-otpd Service
ipa: INFO: The ipactl command was successful
[root@ef-idm01 ~]# ipactl status
Directory Service: RUNNING
krb5kdc Service: RUNNING
kadmin Service: RUNNING
httpd Service: RUNNING
ipa-custodia Service: RUNNING
pki-tomcatd Service: RUNNING
ipa-otpd Service: RUNNING
ipa: INFO: The ipactl command was successful
[root@ef-idm01 ~]# getcert list | egrep '^Request|status:|subject:|expir'
Request ID '20230530175932':
        status: MONITORING
        subject:
CN=ef-idm01.production.efilm.com<http://ef-idm01.production.efilm.com>,O=PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM<http://PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM>
        expires: 2025-05-30 10:59:53 PDT
Request ID '20230530180022':
        status: MONITORING
        subject:
CN=ef-idm01.production.efilm.com<http://ef-idm01.production.efilm.com>,O=PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM<http://PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM>
        expires: 2025-05-30 11:00:30 PDT
Request ID '20230530180438':
        status: NEED_CA
        subject: CN=IPA RA,O=PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM<http://PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM>
        expires: 2024-01-02 07:58:28 PST
[root@ef-idm01 ~]# ipa-cert-fix
Nothing to do.
The ipa-cert-fix command was successful
[root@ef-idm01 ~]# getcert list | egrep '^Request|status:|subject:|expir'
Request ID '20230530175932':
        status: MONITORING
        subject:
CN=ef-idm01.production.efilm.com<http://ef-idm01.production.efilm.com>,O=PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM<http://PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM>
        expires: 2025-05-30 10:59:53 PDT
Request ID '20230530180022':
        status: MONITORING
        subject:
CN=ef-idm01.production.efilm.com<http://ef-idm01.production.efilm.com>,O=PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM<http://PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM>
        expires: 2025-05-30 11:00:30 PDT
Request ID '20230530180438':
        status: NEED_CA
        subject: CN=IPA RA,O=PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM<http://PRODUCTION.EFILM.COM>
        expires: 2024-01-02 07:58:28 PST
[root@ef-idm01 ~]#

How can I sort out this one remaining issue?
Do I just make assign another server as the renewal master?

thanx

- grant