Well that sounds fun :)
I'm hesistent to crosspost to pkg-freeipa-devel(a)lists.alioth.debian.org to
ask after likelihood of seeing 4.5 in 18.04/Bionic but hope someone here
might be able to comment?
WRT the exploding CA situation. I guess I'll need to get to a more sane
build, or switch over to a better supported rpm based distro if that's not
on the cards.. I should be safe in the short term given the standard
lifetime of an IPA cert I hope!?
I'll continue to try and dig into why pki-tomcat dies on one but not all
VMs (ca enabled on 2 of them)
On 1 December 2017 at 13:53, Peter Fern via FreeIPA-users <
freeipa-users(a)lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote:
Without installing a system to check, it appears to me that nss-pem
is
still not packaged for Debian/Ubuntu, which means that certmonger will
break on you when it comes time to auto-renew your CAs.
I found this out the hard way early this year while running FreeIPA with
CA on Ubuntu, and recovery is very painful once your CA certs have expired
(actually impossible without compiling nss-pem, which requires some source
hacking and compiling of libnss to obtain static libs).
Since nss-pem is unlikely to be packaged on Debian/-derivs, it looks to me
like until FreeIPA 4.5+ is packaged (where the conversion to OpenSSL has
been completed), it is still not safe to run a CA on Ubuntu.
On 01/12/17 23:27, David Harvey via FreeIPA-users wrote:
hi Peter,
Not a full answer to your questions but from my experience:
Xenial: Worked, except OTP functionality
Zesty: Worked except for DNS
Artful: Seems fully functional and stable on the fresh installed replica,
my upgraded from Zesty rig (with the workarounds noted earlier in thread)
Still has pki-tomcat bombing fairly frequently.
Bionic: I have high hopes for given LTS.. Currently showing same package
versions
<
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=freeipa&searchon=names&am...
4.4.4 as Artful
Most of them required some cajoling during install or upgrade due to
broken installer components (like directories not being created in one
case, /etc/pki/pki.version confusing postinstall in another), but most of
these behaviours were captured as bugs too. It feels very close to being
something that can be reliably deployed, so I don't think it needs a huge
amount more TLC to make it more of a pleasure to install ;)
Cheers,
David
On 28 November 2017 at 20:58, Peter Fern via FreeIPA-users <
freeipa-users(a)lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote:
> On 23/11/17 05:34, David Harvey via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> > Not sure why tomcat is more resilient when launched as root, but the
> > pki seems to work ok at issuing certs after the above and a reboot for
> > good measure.
>
> This sounds like there are broken permissions in the current Ubuntu
> packages. You should be aware that last time I checked, FreeIPA on
> Ubuntu was subtly yet severely broken, mostly due to the NSS libs
> missing PEM support, which will stop your CA from renewing, amongst
> other things.
>
> Does anyone know what the state of packaging for deb distros is
> currently? Now that the OpenSSL migration is complete(?), the barriers
> to functional packages should be removed, but it looks like that only
> happened in 4.5, and it appears only 4.4 is packaged, which is likely
> still broken?
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