Hello: Your approach seems reasonable: Perhaps you might want to start a vncserver on there and come in that way. There has been issues with using the console over ssh. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ha T. Lam" <hatlam(a)gmail.com&gt; > To: pki-users(a)redhat.com > Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 9:29:07 PM > Subject: [Pki-users] How to renew the admin certificate > > Hi all, > > We have a Dog Tag system hosted on Fedora inside a VirtualBox, our admin > certificate has unfortunately expired, so the web interface complains that > the cert is invalid. I've managed to rewind the clock and authorized myself > a PKI Administrator certificate following this thread: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/pki-users/2013-October/msg00008.html > > I'm now trying to import the new certificate into the system. The thread > mentioned doing it through the pkiconsole, but I have not been able to get > it to work, when I typed: > > pkiconsole https://ca02.mycompany.com:8433/ca > > I don't get any error message, but I don't see any console either. I suspect > this is because I'm ssh-ing into a virtualbox and the display is not set > correctly. > > My questions are: > 1. Does the process I mentioned above make sense? I'm new to dogtag and still > learning about it. > 2. If I'm on the right track, is there a command line option for pkiconsole? > > Thank you for your help, > Ha > > _______________________________________________ > Pki-users mailing list > Pki-users(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pki-users

I suspect the uid is probably caadmin, which is the default, if you left it that way. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ha T. Lam" <hatlam(a)gmail.com&gt; To: "John Magne" <jmagne(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: pki-users(a)redhat.com Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 3:12:35 PM Subject: Re: [Pki-users] How to renew the admin certificate Hi John, Thank you very much for your quick reply. I've managed to get ssh -X sorted out because when I typed pkiconsole https://ca02.mycompany.com:8433/ca I get a dialog box asking for User ID and Password. From our conf file, I put in the pki_admin_uid and pki_admin_password, the dialog box went away, but nothing else happened. I also tried using pki_client_pkcs12_password but with the same result. Looking at the log file /var/log/pki/pki-tomcat/localhost_access_log.2016-04-25.txt, I see "POST /ca/auths HTTP/1.0" 200 27 At this point, I'm not sure if it's because I put in the wrong authentication or if I'm still having problem with the pkiconsole. I've been trying to setup vncserver as you recommended but haven't had much luck. I stumbled on the pki commands and it looks like I can use them to install client certificate, are they equivalent to the pkiconsole? Thanks, Ha On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:10 AM, John Magne <jmagne(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Hello: > > Your approach seems reasonable: > > Perhaps you might want to start a vncserver on there and > come in that way. There has been issues with using the console over ssh. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ha T. Lam" <hatlam(a)gmail.com&gt; > > To: pki-users(a)redhat.com > > Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 9:29:07 PM > > Subject: [Pki-users] How to renew the admin certificate > > > > Hi all, > > > > We have a Dog Tag system hosted on Fedora inside a VirtualBox, our admin > > certificate has unfortunately expired, so the web interface complains > that > > the cert is invalid. I've managed to rewind the clock and authorized > myself > > a PKI Administrator certificate following this thread: > > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/pki-users/2013-October/msg00008.html > > > > I'm now trying to import the new certificate into the system. The thread > > mentioned doing it through the pkiconsole, but I have not been able to > get > > it to work, when I typed: > > > > pkiconsole https://ca02.mycompany.com:8433/ca > > > > I don't get any error message, but I don't see any console either. I > suspect > > this is because I'm ssh-ing into a virtualbox and the display is not set > > correctly. > > > > My questions are: > > 1. Does the process I mentioned above make sense? I'm new to dogtag and > still > > learning about it. > > 2. If I'm on the right track, is there a command line option for > pkiconsole? > > > > Thank you for your help, > > Ha > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pki-users mailing list > > Pki-users(a)redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pki-users >

Hi: If you have access to the nss db and the pin, you can try the following command, preferably with the server shut down: pk12util Usage: pk12util -i importfile [-d certdir] [-P dbprefix] [-h tokenname] [-k slotpwfile | -K slotpw] [-w p12filepwfile | -W p12filepw] [-v] Usage: pk12util -l listfile [-d certdir] [-P dbprefix] [-h tokenname] [-k slotpwfile | -K slotpw] [-w p12filepwfile | -W p12filepw] [-v] Usage: pk12util -o exportfile -n certname [-d certdir] [-P dbprefix] [-c key_cipher] [-C cert_cipher] [-m | --key_len keyLen] [--cert_key_len certKeyLen] [-v] [-k slotpwfile | -K slotpw] [-w p12filepwfile | -W p12filepw] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ha T. Lam" <hatlam(a)gmail.com&gt; To: "John Magne" <jmagne(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: pki-users(a)redhat.com Sent: Monday, 25 April, 2016 5:18:59 PM Subject: Re: [Pki-users] How to renew the admin certificate Yes, I think the uid is caadmin too. I didn't do the installation, but I inherit the config file used during installation, whic​h lists among other things, the values of pki_admin_uid, pki_admin_password, and pki_client_pkcs12_password. After digging around some more, I found this page about how to setup a new CA admin: http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/CA_Admin_Setup But when I execute the following command (replacing CA Admin password and nickname appropriately from the values in config file): pki -c <CA admin password> -n <CA admin nickname> ca-user-add newcaadmin --fullName "CA Admin" I got: ResteasyIOException: IOException I think it is because the default CA Admin certificate was not installed into a database. I tried to do that following: http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Default_CA_Admin but at the following command (replacing Secret123 with our secret) pki -c Secret123 client-cert-import --pkcs12 ~/.dogtag/pki-tomcat/ca_admin_cert.p12 --pkcs12-password ~/.dogtag/pki-tomcat/ca/pkcs12_password.conf I got: Error: Unrecognized option: --pkcs12 usage: client-cert-import [OPTIONS] --ca-cert <path> Import CA certificate file --ca-server Import CA certificate from CA server --cert <path> Import certificate file I switched to pki -c Secret123 -n caadmin client-cert-import --cert ~/.dogtag/pki-tomcat/ca_admin_cert.p12 to get "Import failed" I seem to get stuck at installing either the old cert or the new one. Do you know what the commands are to install cert? On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:17 PM, John Magne <jmagne(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > I suspect the uid is probably caadmin, which is the default, if you left > it that way. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ha T. Lam" <hatlam(a)gmail.com&gt; > To: "John Magne" <jmagne(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: pki-users(a)redhat.com > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 3:12:35 PM > Subject: Re: [Pki-users] How to renew the admin certificate > > Hi John, > > Thank you very much for your quick reply. I've managed to get ssh -X sorted > out because when I typed > > pkiconsole https://ca02.mycompany.com:8433/ca > > I get a dialog box asking for User ID and Password. From our conf file, I > put in the pki_admin_uid and pki_admin_password, the dialog box went away, > but nothing else happened. I also tried using pki_client_pkcs12_password > but with the same result. Looking at the log > file /var/log/pki/pki-tomcat/localhost_access_log.2016-04-25.txt, I see > > "POST /ca/auths HTTP/1.0" 200 27 > > At this point, I'm not sure if it's because I put in the wrong > authentication or if I'm still having problem with the pkiconsole. I've > been trying to setup vncserver as you recommended but haven't had much > luck. > > I stumbled on the pki commands and it looks like I can use them to install > client certificate, are they equivalent to the pkiconsole? > > Thanks, > Ha > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:10 AM, John Magne <jmagne(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > > Hello: > > > > Your approach seems reasonable: > > > > Perhaps you might want to start a vncserver on there and > > come in that way. There has been issues with using the console over ssh. > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Ha T. Lam" <hatlam(a)gmail.com&gt; > > > To: pki-users(a)redhat.com > > > Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 9:29:07 PM > > > Subject: [Pki-users] How to renew the admin certificate > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > We have a Dog Tag system hosted on Fedora inside a VirtualBox, our > admin > > > certificate has unfortunately expired, so the web interface complains > > that > > > the cert is invalid. I've managed to rewind the clock and authorized > > myself > > > a PKI Administrator certificate following this thread: > > > > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/pki-users/2013-October/msg00008.html > > > > > > I'm now trying to import the new certificate into the system. The > thread > > > mentioned doing it through the pkiconsole, but I have not been able to > > get > > > it to work, when I typed: > > > > > > pkiconsole https://ca02.mycompany.com:8433/ca > > > > > > I don't get any error message, but I don't see any console either. I > > suspect > > > this is because I'm ssh-ing into a virtualbox and the display is not > set > > > correctly. > > > > > > My questions are: > > > 1. Does the process I mentioned above make sense? I'm new to dogtag and > > still > > > learning about it. > > > 2. If I'm on the right track, is there a command line option for > > pkiconsole? > > > > > > Thank you for your help, > > > Ha > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Pki-users mailing list > > > Pki-users(a)redhat.com > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pki-users > > >