Identity Management (IdM) replica installation fails between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise 6 IdM master
  • Red Hat Enterprise 7 IdM replica
  • ipa-4.6.4-10.el7_6.2

Issue

  • IdM replica installation fails against Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 IdM master.

Resolution

  • Please add the following cipher to the end of NSSCipherSuite line in /etc/httpd/conf.d/nss.conf on the Red Hat Enterpise Linux 7 replica system:
+ecdhe_rsa_aes_128_sha,+ecdhe_rsa_aes_256_sha

Then please restart httpd:

# systemctl restart httpd

Root Cause

With the update of the pki-core package provided in Red Hat Enterprise Linux- 7.6, certain ciphers that are not supported by hardware security modules (HSM) are no longer enabled by default in Certificate System. As a consequence, setting up Identity Management (IdM) on RHEL-7.6 as a replica with a master running on RHEL-6 fails with a "CRITICAL Failed to configure CA instance" error.

Diagnostic Steps

IdM replica installation fails with the following error:

...
Configuring ipa-custodia
  [1/5]: Making sure custodia container exists
  [2/5]: Generating ipa-custodia config file
  [3/5]: Generating ipa-custodia keys
  [4/5]: starting ipa-custodia 
  [5/5]: configuring ipa-custodia to start on boot
Done configuring ipa-custodia.
Configuring certificate server (pki-tomcatd). Estimated time: 3 minutes
  [1/28]: configuring certificate server instance
ipaserver.install.dogtaginstance: CRITICAL Failed to configure CA instance: Command '/usr/sbin/pkispawn -s CA -f /tmp/tmpxQv9bc' 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.
ipapython.admintool: ERROR    CA configuration failed.
ipapython.admintool: ERROR    The ipa-replica-install command failed. See /var/log/ipareplica-install.log for more information
Your system may be partly configured.
Run /usr/sbin/ipa-server-install --uninstall to clean up.

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