[389-users] Start TLS and 389 Directory

Kyle Flavin kyle.flavin at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 16:24:05 UTC 2012


Here's the output from ldapsearch (I sanitized the domains).  Note that for
the cacert I used "ROOT CA" for the CN of the certificate.  I guess the
next step is to try to set this to the hostname of ldap01?

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root at ldap02 ~]# cat /etc/openldap/ldap.conf
#
# LDAP Defaults
#

# See ldap.conf(5) for details
# This file should be world readable but not world writable.

#BASE   dc=example, dc=com
#URI    ldap://ldap.example.com ldap://ldap-master.example.com:666

#SIZELIMIT      12
#TIMELIMIT      15
#DEREF          never
#URI ldap://127.0.0.1/
#BASE dc=example,dc=com
#TLS_CACERTDIR /etc/openldap/cacerts
TLS_CACERTDIR /tmp/ldap/certs
#TLS_REQCERT never



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[root at ldap02 ldap]# ldapsearch -x -h ldap01.<mydomain>.com -D "cn=Directory
Manager" -W -b "dc=mydomain,dc=com"  -d 1 -ZZ ""
ldap_create
ldap_url_parse_ext(ldap://ldap01.mydomain.com)
ldap_extended_operation_s
ldap_extended_operation
ldap_send_initial_request
ldap_new_connection 1 1 0
ldap_int_open_connection
ldap_connect_to_host: TCP ldap01.mydomain.com:389
ldap_new_socket: 3
ldap_prepare_socket: 3
ldap_connect_to_host: Trying 10.163.121.194:389
ldap_connect_timeout: fd: 3 tm: -1 async: 0
ldap_open_defconn: successful
ldap_send_server_request
ber_scanf fmt ({it) ber:
ber_scanf fmt ({) ber:
ber_flush: 31 bytes to sd 3
ldap_result ld 0x14890770 msgid 1
wait4msg ld 0x14890770 msgid 1 (infinite timeout)
wait4msg continue ld 0x14890770 msgid 1 all 1
** ld 0x14890770 Connections:
* host: ldap01.mydomain.com  port: 389  (default)
  refcnt: 2  status: Connected
  last used: Fri Sep 28 09:16:51 2012

** ld 0x14890770 Outstanding Requests:
 * msgid 1,  origid 1, status InProgress
   outstanding referrals 0, parent count 0
** ld 0x14890770 Response Queue:
   Empty
ldap_chkResponseList ld 0x14890770 msgid 1 all 1
ldap_chkResponseList returns ld 0x14890770 NULL
ldap_int_select
read1msg: ld 0x14890770 msgid 1 all 1
ber_get_next
ber_get_next: tag 0x30 len 95 contents:
read1msg: ld 0x14890770 msgid 1 message type extended-result
ber_scanf fmt ({eaa) ber:
read1msg: ld 0x14890770 0 new referrals
read1msg:  mark request completed, ld 0x14890770 msgid 1
request done: ld 0x14890770 msgid 1
res_errno: 0, res_error: <>, res_matched: <>
ldap_free_request (origid 1, msgid 1)
ldap_parse_extended_result
ber_scanf fmt ({eaa) ber:
ber_scanf fmt (a) ber:
ldap_parse_result
ber_scanf fmt ({iaa) ber:
ber_scanf fmt (x) ber:
ber_scanf fmt (}) ber:
ldap_msgfree
TLS trace: SSL_connect:before/connect initialization
TLS trace: SSL_connect:SSLv2/v3 write client hello A
TLS trace: SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server hello A
TLS certificate verification: depth: 1, err: 19, subject:
/C=US/ST=California/L=Burbank/O=mydomain/OU=ADS/CN=ROOT CA, issuer:
/C=US/ST=California/L=Burbank/O=mydomain/OU=ADS/CN=ROOT CA
TLS certificate verification: Error, self signed certificate in certificate
chain
TLS trace: SSL3 alert write:fatal:unknown CA
TLS trace: SSL_connect:error in SSLv3 read server certificate B
TLS trace: SSL_connect:error in SSLv3 read server certificate B
TLS: can't connect.
ldap_perror
ldap_start_tls: Connect error (-11)
        additional info: error:14090086:SSL
routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed



On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Grzegorz Dwornicki <gd1100 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I was thinking about server cert but I usually put fqdn in every
> certificate I made.
>
> This is intersting problem. Can you provide output of ldapsearch with
> debug plus contents of /etc/openldap/ldap.conf?
>
> Greg.
> 28 wrz 2012 17:20, "Kyle Flavin" <kyle.flavin at gmail.com> napisał(a):
>
> I tried both tls_cacert and tls_cacertdir, same result.  I think it's
>> still encrypting when I set tls_reqcert to never, because ldapsearch with
>> -d 1 indicates it's still doing the Start TLS negotiation, and dsniff
>> doesn't seem to pick up the password when I add the "-ZZ" (it grabs the pw
>> when I leave that off).  Maybe dnsiff just doesn't "speak" Start TLS
>> though, and I need to look at it with wireshark to make sure the password
>> isn't in cleartext...
>>
>> Hmm, I don't think I set the CN of the cacert to the hostname.  Does it
>> matter if I generate multiple certs for the same host using the same
>> hostname for the CN?  I'm using self signed certs.  The server.cert which I
>> generated for the directory server uses the hostname for its CN so I didn't
>> want duplicates.  I just set CN of the cacert to "ROOT CA" I think.  Also,
>> apparently I need to generate yet another cert for the admin server.  I
>> wanted to just reuse my server.cert from the directory server in both
>> places, but 389 isn't letting me do that (it says the cert was generated by
>> another host).  This would mean I'd need yet a third certificate with a CN
>> set to the hostname of this same server.  Again, not sure if this is a
>> problem...
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Grzegorz Dwornicki <gd1100 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> maybe tls_reqcert never forces non ssl or it forces no ssl checks. As
>>> You know for example hostname must be present and valid DNS domain in CN
>>> field of certficace or session will fail.
>>>
>>> Have you tried using tls_cacert insted of cacertdir? I am writing this
>>> without manuals soo I am not sure: tls_cacert or tls_cacertfile
>>>
>>> I have learned when you have just one ca, then tls_cacertdir sometimes
>>> did not work as I thought it would. It did not work at all for me.
>>>
>>> Greg.
>>> 28 wrz 2012 07:28, "Kyle Flavin" <kyle.flavin at gmail.com> napisał(a):
>>>
>>> Yeah -- So what I did is drop cacert.asc under /tmp/ldap/certs for
>>>> testing purposes.  I then added a line "TLS_CACERTDIR /tmp/ldap/certs" to
>>>> /etc/openldap/ldap.conf.  The logs on the directory server (and from adding
>>>> a -d 1 option to ldapsearch) indicated that the client was rejecting the
>>>> certificate.  So I used certutil with cacert.asc to create the cert8.db and
>>>> key3.db files under /tmp/ldap/certs (I now have cacert.asc, cert8.db,
>>>> key3.db, and secmod.db under that directory).  Same result.  Then I went
>>>> back to /etc/openldap/ldap.conf and set "TLS_REQCERT never", and commented
>>>> out the cacertdir directive.  With that configuration, ldapsearch works
>>>> with the -ZZ options.  So for some reason, it isn't liking my CA cert, and
>>>> I'm not sure why.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Grzegorz Dwornicki <gd1100 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Did you install ca.cert on system and setup /etc/openldap/ldap.conf ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Greg.
>>>>> 28 wrz 2012 05:11, "Kyle Flavin" <kyle.flavin at gmail.com> napisał(a):
>>>>>
>>>>>>  Hi, I've been struggling to setup 389 Directory server with Start
>>>>>> TLS.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a multi-master replication working with four server.  From an
>>>>>> external client running openldap's ldapsearch, I'm trying to do the
>>>>>> following:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ldapsearch -ZZ -x -h "myserver" -b "dc=example,dc=com" -D
>>>>>> "cn=Directory Manager" -W ""
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I get an unsupported protocol error on servers that do not have
>>>>>> certificates installed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In an attempt to resolve this, I tried to install a self-signed
>>>>>> cert.  I created a ca.cert and a server.crt, and imported them into the
>>>>>> Directory Server.  I then imported the ca.cert to the admin server.  When I
>>>>>> attempted to import the same server.crt to the admin server, I got an error
>>>>>> message stating the certificate was for another host.  Since the admin
>>>>>> server and directory server reside on the same host, if I generate a new
>>>>>> request, it will have an identical host name (I'm not sure if that's
>>>>>> relevant to my issue).  After all of that, I now receive a "Connect Error
>>>>>> SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed".  I'm guessing I
>>>>>> need to import the root cert onto the client somehow, but I'm not sure how
>>>>>> to go about doing that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This has become pretty time consuming, so I was hoping that someone
>>>>>> more knowledgeable could confirm that I'm at least travelling down the
>>>>>> right path.  I've been following this Red Hat document:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/9.0/html/Administration_Guide/Managing_SSL.html#Starting_the_Server_with_SSL_Enabled-Enabling_SSL_in_the_DS_Admin_Server_and_Console
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Kyle
>>>>>>
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