[ovirt-users] Cannot install new host on 4.0, Certificate enrollment failed

Matt . yamakasi.014 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 11:28:07 UTC 2016


Yes, I thought the same, good to have it cleared out!

Thanks a lot, I like to know how it's running :)

2016-07-20 13:26 GMT+02:00 Juan Hernández <jhernand at redhat.com>:
> On 07/20/2016 01:21 PM, Matt . wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks a lot, it's good to know about this.
>>
>> There is no way to shorten the commonname ? or wil it aways used the
>> hostname there, as it's cn I doubt if we can use something else there.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Matt
>>
>
> I think it can't be shortened, as most TLS/SSL clients check that the
> host name matches exactly the common name inside the certificate, and
> this check would fail if you shorten it.
>
>>
>>
>> 2016-07-20 13:07 GMT+02:00 Juan Hernández <jhernand at redhat.com>:
>>> On 07/20/2016 12:30 PM, Matt . wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I found out yesterday late I was looking in the certs folder for the
>>>> serial, this was the issue all files are there.
>>>>
>>>> I need to test a shorter fqdn, which is a pity, but I wonder why it
>>>> should be too long for a cert create.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Looks like it is a limitation of the X.509 specification:
>>>
>>>   ub-common-name INTEGER ::= 64
>>>   ...
>>>   520CommonName ::= CHOICE {
>>>       teletexString     TeletexString   (SIZE (1..ub-common-name)),
>>>       printableString   PrintableString (SIZE (1..ub-common-name)),
>>>       universalString   UniversalString (SIZE (1..ub-common-name)),
>>>       utf8String        UTF8String      (SIZE (1..ub-common-name)),
>>>       bmpString         BMPString       (SIZE (1..ub-common-name)) }
>>>
>>> The source is RFC 5280:
>>>
>>>   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5280.txt
>>>
>>> Maybe we should check these limits during the setup.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2016-07-20 10:14 GMT+02:00 Juan Hernández <jhernand at redhat.com>:
>>>>> On 07/19/2016 07:59 PM, Matt . wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for the heads up, I saw this in some thread too and this file
>>>>>> was available here with the upcoming number.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Which rightsdo the file has?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't have a ca.pem in that cert folder anymore can that be an issue?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In theory the ca.pem isn't needed to sign certificates, but the fact
>>>>> that it isn't in that directory probably means that something has been
>>>>> incorrectly manipulated, either manually or by the system itself. These
>>>>> are the files/permissions from a working environment:
>>>>>
>>>>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root  root    28 Jul  8 11:34 apache-ca.pem ->
>>>>> /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/ca.pem
>>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root  root   384 Jul  8 11:34 cacert.conf
>>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root  root   384 Jul  8 11:34 cacert.template
>>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root  root   384 Jul 18 20:46 cacert.template.in
>>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root  root  4587 Jul  8 11:34 ca.pem
>>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root  root   923 Jul  8 11:34 cert.conf
>>>>> drwxr-xr-x. 2 ovirt ovirt 4096 Jul 18 20:46 certs
>>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root  root   923 Jul  8 11:34 cert.template
>>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root  root   717 Jul 18 20:46 cert.template.in
>>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 ovirt ovirt  667 Jul  8 11:42 database.txt
>>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 ovirt ovirt   20 Jul  8 11:42 database.txt.attr
>>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 ovirt ovirt   20 Jul  8 11:42 database.txt.attr.old
>>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 ovirt ovirt  599 Jul  8 11:42 database.txt.old
>>>>> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root  root  4096 Jul 18 20:46 keys
>>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root  root   548 Jul 18 20:46 openssl.conf
>>>>> drwxr-x---. 2 ovirt ovirt   19 Jul 18 20:46 private
>>>>> drwxr-xr-x. 2 ovirt ovirt 4096 Jul 18 20:46 requests
>>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 ovirt ovirt    5 Jul  8 11:42 serial.txt
>>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 ovirt ovirt    5 Jul  8 11:42 serial.txt.old
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2016-07-19 19:08 GMT+02:00 Juan Hernández <jhernand at redhat.com>:
>>>>>>> On 07/19/2016 06:16 PM, Matt . wrote:
>>>>>>>> Can anyone confirm what max. number of subdomains can be used for a
>>>>>>>> certificate ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The length of 65 per subdomain should be default.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2016-07-19 15:06 GMT+02:00 Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>>> It's the fqdn indeed, not it's hostname.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Fqdn should be possible I thought as discussed before in the channel
>>>>>>>>> (while ago).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 2016-07-19 15:04 GMT+02:00 Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com>:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> kvm-01.hosts.services-01.clusters.mycluster-01.dc.ovirt.subdomain.dc-01.dc.my.network
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Is this the name of the host? perhaps it's a bit too long?
>>>>>>>>>> Y.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not sure if this is relevant, but I had the same problem today, and the
>>>>>>> cause was that the /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/serial.txt file was empty, and
>>>>>>> openssl refused to open it. I wrote manually a number inside, taking the
>>>>>>> value from /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/serial.txt.old (plus one), and then
>>>>>>> things started to work.
>>>>>>>
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