[389-users] Recover after installing a bad cert.

[Ryan Braun [ADS]]

On July 8, 2009 06:19:55 pm Dumbo Q wrote:
> I just installed a new ssl certificate using pk12util.  I restarted my
> dirsrv, and picked the new cert in the dropdown menu under the encryption
> tab.  I restarted dirsrv to make it take affect.  When I did this, I found
> that the root certificate was not in redhats/openssls ca-bundle.  I tried
> importing the intermediate certificate, and I think I just made the problem
> worse.
>
> right now im getting the following.
>  SSL alert: CERT_VerifyCertificateNow: verify certificate failed for cert
> rhds.example.com - Comodo CA Limited of family
> cn=RSA,cn=encryption,cn=config (Netscape Portable Runtime error -8179 -
> Peer's Certificate issuer is not recognized.) [08/Jul/2009:14:18:04 -0400]
> - SSL failure: None of the cipher are valid
>
>
> Now my directory is down completely.  How can I get it to start up without
> SSL so that I can fix the problem?

Make sure you backup /etc/dirsrv/INSTANCE/dse.ldif

then edit that file and look for

nsslapd-security: on

change to

nsslapd-security: off

save file,  restart service and ssl should be turned off.  Keep in mind 
whatever caused the ssl config to puke in the first place is still there :)

Ryan