Disable FIPS for JBoss EAP with RHEL 8.6 and later

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Issue

  • We need to disable FIPS for our JBoss EAP server
  • I started JBoss EAP by adding "-Dcom.redhat.fips=false" to start without FIPS mode
  • I am getting the following error :
/subsystem=elytron/credential-store=myCS:add(relative-to=jboss.server.config.dir, path=myCS.store, credential-reference={clear-text="password"}, create=true)

ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-1) MSC000001: Failed to start service org.wildfly.security.credential-store.myCS: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service org.wildfly.security.credential-store.myCS: WFLYELY00004: Unable to start the service.
        at org.wildfly.extension.elytron.CredentialStoreResourceDefinition$CredentialStoreDoohickey$1.get(CredentialStoreResourceDefinition.java:535)
        at org.wildfly.extension.elytron.CredentialStoreResourceDefinition$CredentialStoreDoohickey$1.get(CredentialStoreResourceDefinition.java:492)
        at org.wildfly.extension.elytron.ElytronDoohickey.get(ElytronDoohickey.java:114)
        ...
Caused by: org.wildfly.security.credential.store.CredentialStoreException: ELY09514: Unable to initialize credential store
        at org.wildfly.security.credential.store.impl.KeyStoreCredentialStore.getKeyStoreInstance(KeyStoreCredentialStore.java:955)
        at org.wildfly.security.credential.store.impl.KeyStoreCredentialStore.load(KeyStoreCredentialStore.java:846)
        ...
Caused by: java.security.KeyStoreException: JCEKS not found
        at java.security.KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.java:851)
        at org.wildfly.security.credential.store.impl.KeyStoreCredentialStore.getKeyStoreInstance(KeyStoreCredentialStore.java:951)
        ... 16 more
Caused by: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: JCEKS KeyStore not available
        at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:159)
        at java.security.Security.getImpl(Security.java:775)
        at java.security.KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.java:848)
        ... 17 more

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP)
    • 7.4.4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    • 8.6

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