Renewing Puppet Certificates

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On March 7th of 2019, our SSL certificates for Puppet/Foreman and TLS LDAP all reached their five year expiration period. This has caused Puppet and Foreman to stop working and our authentication server cannot be accessed. I cannot create new users that are recognized by the cluster. And users cannot login to machines that they have previously never logged into. You can imagine the trouble this has caused. As of March 22, I have not solved this yet but I will be documenting my attempts to fix this.

Notes

I got a great deal of clues based on the configuration files located in the following areas:

/etc/foreman
/etc/foreman/ssl
/etc/puppet
/etc/puppet/puppet.conf
/etc/httpd/conf.d
/etc/httpd/conf.d/05-foreman-ssl.conf (tells you what SSL certificates files foreman looks at)
/etc/httpd/conf.d/25-puppet.conf      (tells you what certificate name that the puppetmaster uses)

Procedure to Renew SSL Certificates on Puppet Master

First of all, stop httpd. Puppet master and Foreman run via httpd

[root@alpha ~]# service httpd stop

Get subject of original certificate

[root@alpha ~]# openssl x509 -in /var/lib/puppet/ssl/ca/ca_crt.pem -noout -subject
subject= /CN=Puppet CA: alpha.ucsf.bkslab.org

Get serial of original certificate

[root@alpha ~]# openssl x509 -in /var/lib/puppet/ssl/ca/ca_crt.pem -noout -serial
serial=01

Extract info from puppetmaster cert

[root@alpha ~]# openssl x509 -in /var/lib/puppet/ssl/certs/puppetmaster.cluster.ucsf.bkslab.org.pem -text -noout \
-certopt no_subject,no_header,no_version,no_serial,no_signame,no_validity,no_subject,no_issuer,no_pubkey,no_sigdump,no_aux

Create directories to stage new valid periods (I determined puppetmaster.cluster.ucsf.bkslab.org.pem was the .pem file we need because certname in [master] section of /etc/puppet/puppet.conf has this name)

[root@alpha ~]# mkdir /root/puppet_renewal
[root@alpha ~]# cd /root/puppet_renewal
[root@alpha ~]# mkdir /root/puppet_renewal/ca
[root@alpha ~]# mkdir /root/puppet_renewal/puppetmaster
[root@alpha ~]# mkdir /root/puppet_renewal/puppetmaster/private_keys
[root@alpha ~]# mkdir /root/puppet_renewal/puppetmaster/certs

Copy the existing certificate authority's key and the puppetmaster's private key (Only certificates expire. Private keys do not so they can be reused).

[root@alpha ~]# cp /var/lib/puppet/ssl/ca/ca_key.pem /root/puppet_renewal/ca
[root@alpha ~]# cp /var/lib/puppet/ssl/private_keys/mypuppetmaster.cluster.ucsf.bkslab.org.pem /root/puppet_renewal/puppetmaster/private_keys

Create an openssl configuration file

[root@alpha ~]# vi puppet_renewal/renewpuppet.cnf
renewpuppet.cnf
[ v3_ca ]
basicConstraints= CA:TRUE
subjectKeyIdentifier= hash
# authorityKeyIdentifier= keyid:always,issuer:always
keyUsage = critical, cRLSign, keyCertSign
nsComment = 'Puppet Ruby/OpenSSL Internal Certificate' 

[ v3 ]
basicConstraints= CA:FALSE
subjectKeyIdentifier= hash
nsComment = 'Puppet Ruby/OpenSSL Internal Certificate'
keyUsage = critical, digitalSignature, keyEncipherment
extendedKeyUsage = critical, serverAuth, clientAuth
subjectAltName = @alt_names 

[ alt_names ]
DNS.1 = puppet
DNS.2 = puppet.ucsf.bkslab.org
DNS.3 = puppet.cluster.ucsf.bkslab.org
DNS.4 = puppetmaster
DNS.5 = puppetmaster.ucsf.bkslab.org
DNS.6 = puppetmaster.cluster.ucsf.bkslab.org
DNS.7 = alpha
DNS.8 = alpha.ucsf.bkslab.org
DNS.9 = alpha.cluster.ucsf.bkslab.org
DNS.10 = alpha.compbio.ucsf.edu

Create certificate signing request with existing files

[root@alpha ~]# openssl req -key /root/puppet_renewal/ca/ca_key.pem -new -batch -subj "/CN=Puppet CA: alpha.ucsf.bkslab.org" -out /root/puppet_renewal/ca/ca_new.csr

Create a new CA certificate

[root@alpha ~]#openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in /root/puppet_renewal/ca/ca_new.csr -signkey /root/puppet_renewal/ca/ca_key.pem \
-out /root/puppet_renewal/ca/ca_crt.pem -extfile /root/puppet_renewal/renewpuppet.cnf -extensions v3_ca -set_serial 1
Signature ok
subject=/CN=Puppet CA: alpha.ucsf.bkslab.org
Getting Private key

Get serial number for your existing CA

[root@alpha puppet_renewal]# echo $((0x`cat /var/lib/puppet/ssl/ca/serial`))
451

Create new certificate signing request with puppet server's key

[root@alpha ~]# openssl req -key /root/puppet_renewal/puppetmaster/private_keys/puppetmaster.cluster.ucsf.bkslab.org.pem -new \
-batch -subj "/CN=alpha.ucsf.bkslab.org" -out /root/puppet_renewal/mypuppetmaster.csr

Create new puppet master's certificate

[root@alpha ~]# openssl x509 -extfile /root/puppet_renewal/renewpuppet.cnf -extensions v3 -req -days 1825 -in /root/puppet_renewal/mypuppetmaster.csr \
-CA /root/puppet_renewal/ca/ca_crt.pem -CAkey /root/puppet_renewal/ca/ca_key.pem -CAcreateserial \
-out /root/puppet_renewal/puppetmaster/certs/puppetmaster.cluster.ucsf.bkslab.org.pem -sha256 -set_serial 451

Replace Puppet's ca_crt.pem, ca.pem, and puppetmaster.pem

 [root@alpha ~]# cp puppet_renewal/ca/ca_crt.pem /var/lib/puppet/ssl/ca/ca_crt.pem
 [root@alpha ~]# puppet_renewal/ca/ca_crt.pem /var/lib/puppet/ssl/certs/ca.pem
 [root@alpha ~]# cp puppet_renewal/puppetmaster/certs/puppetmaster.cluster.ucsf.bkslab.org.pem /var/lib/puppet/ssl/certs/puppetmaster.cluster.ucsf.bkslab.org.pem

Restart httpd

# If this fails, a mistake was made.  Check /var/log/httpd.  
[root@alpha ~]# service httpd start
Starting httpd: [Wed Mar 27 12:28:24 2019] [warn] module passenger_module is already loaded, skipping
                                                          [  OK  ]

Renewing Foreman's certificates (in progress)

Investigate /etc/foreman/ssl/README cluster2 on foreman

#openssl genrsa -aes128 -out foreman.key 2048
openssl genrsa -out foreman.key 2048
openssl req -new -out foreman.csr -key foreman.key -config foreman.cnf 
openssl req -text -in foreman.csr -noout
openssl x509 -req -in foreman.csr -CA /var/lib/puppet/ssl/ca/ca_crt.pem -CAkey /var/lib/puppet/ssl/ca/ca_key.pem -CAserial /var/lib/puppet/ssl/ca/serial -out foreman.crt -days 1730 

openssl rsa -in foreman.key -out foreman.key-unlocked

ln -s foreman.key-unlocked key.pem
ln -s foreman.crt cert.pem