I try to add a new replica to a cluster of 3 freeipa servers. ipa-replica-install --setup-ca fails with an error: [5/28]: configuring certificate server instance ipaserver.install.dogtaginstance: CRITICAL Failed to configure CA instance: Command '/usr/sbin/pkispawn -s CA -f /tmp/tmp_3KfOZ' returned non-zero exit status 1 ipaserver.install.dogtaginstance: CRITICAL See the installation logs and the following files/directories for more information: ipaserver.install.dogtaginstance: CRITICAL /var/log/pki/pki-tomcat [error] RuntimeError: CA configuration failed.
/var/log/pki/pki-tomcat/ca/debug gives more info: [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: === Processing ocsp_signing cert === [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: === Processing sslserver cert === [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: SystemConfigService.processKeyPair(sslserver) [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: SystemConfigService: san_server_cert not found [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: SystemConfigService: loading existing key pair from NSS database [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: ConfigurationUtils: loadKeyPair(Server-Cert cert-pki-ca, ) [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: SystemConfigService: storing key pair into CS.cfg [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: ConfigurationUtils: storeKeyPair(sslserver) [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: SystemConfigService.processCert(sslserver) [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: SystemConfigService: checking sslserver cert in NSS database [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: configCert: caType is local [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: configCert: caType is remote (revised) [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: ConfigurationUtils: updateConfig() for certTag sslserver [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: updateConfig() done [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: configCert: remote CA [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: confgCert: tag: sslserver [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: CertRequestPanel: got public key [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: CertRequestPanel: got private key [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: ConfigurationUtils: For this Cloned CA, always use its Master CA to generate the 'sslserver' certificate to avoid any changes which may have been made to the X500Name directory string encoding order. [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: ConfigurationUtils: injectSAN: false [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: configRemoteCert: tag: sslserver : setting profileId to: caInternalAuthServerCert [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: configRemoteCert: tag: sslserver calculated profileId: caInternalAuthServerCert [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: CertUtil: content: {xmlOutput=[true], cert_request_type=[pkcs10], profileId=[caInternalAuthServerCert], cert_request=[...cut...], requestor_name=[CA-srvXXX.local.domain-8443], sessionID=[6184760106499759096]} [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: ConfigurationUtils: POST https://srvYYY.local.domain:443/ca/ee/ca/profileSubmit [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: CertUtil: status: 1 [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06][http-bio-8443-exec-3]: CertUtil: error: Request 19990005 - Server Internal Error java.io.IOException: Request 19990005 - Server Internal Error at com.netscape.cms.servlet.csadmin.CertUtil.createRemoteCert(CertUtil.java:103) at com.netscape.cms.servlet.csadmin.ConfigurationUtils.configRemoteCert(ConfigurationUtils.java:2737) at com.netscape.cms.servlet.csadmin.ConfigurationUtils.configCert(ConfigurationUtils.java:2593) at org.dogtagpki.server.rest.SystemConfigService.processCert(SystemConfigService.java:484) at org.dogtagpki.server.rest.SystemConfigService.processCerts(SystemConfigService.java:303) at org.dogtagpki.server.rest.SystemConfigService.configure(SystemConfigService.java:166) at org.dogtagpki.server.rest.SystemConfigService.configure(SystemConfigService.java:101) <...long stacktrace...>
LDAP access logs on existing server show that certificate request ID was reused. ADD queries for request as well as for certificate have failed, but nevertheless the request was overwritten with a third query: [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06.259655845 +0300] conn=2608 op=1804 ADD dn="cn=19990005,ou=ca,ou=requests,o=ipaca" [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06.260525381 +0300] conn=2608 op=1804 RESULT err=68 tag=105 nentries=0 etime=0.0001251547 [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06.295774388 +0300] conn=2608 op=1805 ADD dn="cn=536805381,ou=certificateRepository,ou=ca,o=ipaca" [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06.296210847 +0300] conn=2608 op=1805 RESULT err=68 tag=105 nentries=0 etime=0.0000755866 [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06.301651990 +0300] conn=2608 op=1806 MOD dn="cn=19990005,ou=ca,ou=requests,o=ipaca" [15/Sep/2020:15:42:06.315983780 +0300] conn=2608 op=1806 RESULT err=0 tag=103 nentries=0 etime=0.0014827998 csn=5f60b69f000000110000
I can confirm that each server has its own request ID range configured in /etc/pki/pki-tomcat/ca/CS.cfg: 1. dbs.beginRequestNumber=19970001 dbs.endRequestNumber=19980000 2. dbs.beginRequestNumber=19980001 dbs.endRequestNumber=19990000 3. dbs.beginRequestNumber=19990001 dbs.endRequestNumber=20000000
So my questions are: 1. How does PKI track request IDs and prevent their reuse? 2. Does overwriting certificate request in LDAP affect certificate renewal or have any other negative consequences? 3. What's the best way to fix this problem? LDAP backups are available and restoring o=ipaca is an option. Domain database rollback is not an option though.