Certidude ========= .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/laurivosandi/certidude.svg?branch=master :target: https://travis-ci.org/laurivosandi/certidude .. image:: http://codecov.io/github/laurivosandi/certidude/coverage.svg?branch=master :target: http://codecov.io/github/laurivosandi/certidude?branch=master Introduction ------------ Certidude is a minimalist X.509 Certificate Authority management tool with Kerberos authentication mainly designed for OpenVPN gateway operators to make VPN client setup on laptops, desktops and mobile devices as painless as possible. .. figure:: doc/certidude.png Certidude can also be used to manage IPSec certifcates (StrongSwan) or HTTPS client certificates to limit access to eg. intranet websites. For a full-blown CA you might want to take a look at `EJBCA `_ or `OpenCA `_. Usecases -------- .. figure:: doc/usecase-diagram.png Following usecases are covered: * I am a sysadmin. Employees with different operating systems need to access internal network services over OpenVPN. I want to provide web interface for submitting the certificate signing request online. I want to get notified via e-mail when a user submits a certificate. Once I have signed the certificate I want the user to have easy way to download the signed certificate from the same web interface. Request submission and signing has to be visible in the web interface immediately. Common name is set to username. * I am a sysadmin. I want to allow my Ubuntu roadwarriors to connect to network services at headquarters via IPSec. I want to make use of domain membership trust to automatically sign the certificates. Common name is set to computers hostname without the domain suffix. NetworkManager integration is necessary so the user can see the VPN connection state. Software installation and one simple configuration file should suffice to get up and running. * I am a sysadmin. Employees need to get access to intranet wiki using HTTPS certificates possibly with multiple devices. Common name is set to username@device-identifier. The user logs in using domain account in the web interface and can automatically retrieve a P12 bundle which can be installed on her Android device. Features -------- Common: * Standard request, sign, revoke workflow via web interface. * RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography both supported, use ``certidude setup authority --elliptic-curve`` for the second * `OCSP `_ and `SCEP `_ support. * PAM and Active Directory compliant authentication backends: Kerberos single sign-on, LDAP simple bind. * POSIX groups and Active Directory (LDAP) group membership based authorization. * Server-side command-line interface, check out ``certidude list``, ``certidude sign`` and ``certidude revoke``. * Certificate serial numbers are intentionally randomized to avoid leaking information about business practices. * Server-side events support via `nchan `_. * E-mail notifications about pending, signed, revoked, renewed and overwritten certificates. * Built using compilation-free `oscrypto `_ library. * Object tagging, attach metadata to certificates using extended filesystem attributes. Virtual private networking: * Send VPN profile URL tokens via e-mail, for simplified VPN adoption on Android, iOS, Windows, Mac OS X and Ubuntu. * OpenVPN gateway and roadwarrior integration, check out ``certidude setup openvpn server`` and ``certidude setup openvpn client``. * StrongSwan gateway and roadwarrior integration, check out ``certidude setup strongswan server`` and ``certidude setup strongswan client``. * NetworkManager integration for Ubuntu and Fedora, check out ``certidude setup openvpn networkmanager`` and ``certidude setup strongswan networkmanager``. HTTPS: * P12 bundle generation for web browsers, seems to work well with Android * HTTPS server setup with client verification, check out ``certidude setup nginx`` Install ------- To install Certidude server you need certain system libraries in addition to regular Python dependencies. System dependencies for Ubuntu 16.04: .. code:: bash apt install -y python3-click python3-jinja2 python3-markdown \ python3-pip python3-mysql.connector python3-requests python3-pyxattr System dependencies for Fedora 25+: .. code:: bash yum install redhat-rpm-config python-devel openssl-devel openldap-devel At the moment package at PyPI is rather outdated. Please proceed down to `Development <#development>`_ section to install Certidude from source. Setting up authority -------------------- First make sure the machine used for certificate authority has fully qualified domain name set up properly. You can check it with: .. code:: bash hostname -f The command should return ``ca.example.com``. If necessary tweak machine's fully qualified hostname in ``/etc/hosts``: .. code:: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 ca.example.com ca Certidude will submit e-mail notifications to locally running MTA. Install Postfix and configure it as Satellite system: .. code:: bash apt install postfix Certidude can set up certificate authority relatively easily. Following will set up certificate authority in ``/var/lib/certidude/``, configure systemd service for your platform, nginx in ``/etc/nginx/sites-available/certidude.conf``, cronjobs in ``/etc/cron.hourly/certidude`` and much more: .. code:: bash certidude setup authority Tweak the configuration in ``/etc/certidude/server.conf`` until you meet your requirements, to apply changes run: .. code:: bash systemctl restart certidude Setting up PAM authentication ----------------------------- Following assumes the OS user accounts are used to authenticate users. This means users can be easily managed with OS tools such as ``adduser``, ``usermod``, ``userdel`` etc. Make sure you insert `AllowUsers administrator-account-username` to SSH server configuration if you have SSH server installed on the machine to prevent regular users from accessing the command line of certidude. Note that in future we're planning to add command-line interaction in which case SSH access makes sense. If you're planning to use PAM for authentication you need to install corresponding Python modules: .. code:: bash pip3 install simplepam The default configuration generated by ``certidude setup`` should make use of the PAM. Setting up Active Directory authentication ------------------------------------------ Following assumes you have already set up Kerberos infrastructure and Certidude is simply one of the servers making use of that infrastructure. Install additional dependencies: .. code:: bash apt-get install samba-common-bin krb5-user ldap-utils python-gssapi Reset Samba client configuration in ``/etc/samba/smb.conf``, adjust workgroup and realm accordingly: .. code:: ini [global] security = ads netbios name = CA workgroup = EXAMPLE realm = EXAMPLE.COM kerberos method = system keytab Reset Kerberos client configuration in ``/etc/krb5.conf``: .. code:: ini [libdefaults] default_realm = EXAMPLE.COM dns_lookup_realm = true dns_lookup_kdc = true Initialize Kerberos credentials: .. code:: bash kinit administrator Join the machine to domain: .. code:: bash net ads join -k Set up Kerberos keytab for the web service: .. code:: bash KRB5_KTNAME=FILE:/etc/certidude/server.keytab net ads keytab add HTTP -k chown root:certidude /etc/certidude/server.keytab chmod 640 /etc/certidude/server.keytab Reconfigure /etc/certidude/server.conf so ``kerberos`` backend is used for authentication, and ``ldap`` backend is used for accoutns and authorization. Adjust related options as necessary. Also make sure there is cron.hourly job for creating GSSAPI credential cache - that's necessary for querying LDAP using Certidude machine's credentials. Common pitfalls: * Following error message may mean that the IP address of the web server does not match the IP address used to join the CA machine to domain, eg when you're running CA behind SSL terminating web server: Bad credentials: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information (851968) Setting up services ------------------- Set up services as usual (OpenVPN, Strongswan, etc), when setting up certificates See Certidude admin interface how to submit CSR-s and retrieve signed certificates. Setting up clients ------------------ This example works for Ubuntu 16.04 desktop with corresponding plugins installed for NetworkManager. Configure Certidude client in ``/etc/certidude/client.conf``: .. code:: ini [ca.example.com] trigger = interface up hostname = $HOSTNAME Configure services in ``/etc/certidude/services.conf``: .. code:: bash [OpenVPN to gateway.example.com] authority = ca.example.com service = network-manager/openvpn remote = gateway.example.com [IPSec to gateway.example.com] authority = ca.example.com service = network-manager/strongswan remote = gateway.example.com To request certificate: .. code:: bash certidude enroll The keys, signing requests, certificates and CRL-s are placed under /etc/certidude/authority/ca.example.com/ The VPN connection should immideately become available under network connections. Development ----------- To use dependencies from pip: .. code:: bash apt install build-essential python-dev cython libffi-dev libssl-dev \ libkrb5-dev ldap-utils krb5-user libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit \ libsasl2-dev libldap2-dev Clone the repository: .. code:: bash git clone https://github.com/laurivosandi/certidude cd certidude Install dependencies as shown above and additionally: .. code:: bash pip3 install -r requirements.txt To install the package from the source tree: .. code:: bash pip3 install -e . To run tests and measure code coverage grab a clean VM or container: .. code:: bash pip3 install codecov pytest-cov rm .coverage* COVERAGE_FILE=/tmp/.coverage TRAVIS=1 coverage run --parallel-mode --source certidude -m py.test tests --capture=sys coverage combine coverage report To uninstall: .. code:: bash pip3 uninstall certidude Offline install --------------- To prepare packages for offline installation use following snippet on a vanilla Ubuntu 16.04 or container: .. code:: bash rm -fv /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb /var/cache/certidude/wheels/*.whl apt install --download-only python3-pip pip3 wheel --wheel-dir=/var/cache/certidude/wheels -r requirements.txt pip3 wheel --wheel-dir=/var/cache/certidude/wheels . tar -cf certidude-client.tar /var/cache/certidude/wheels add-apt-repository -y ppa:nginx/stable apt-get update -q apt install --download-only python3-markdown python3-pyxattr python3-jinja2 python3-cffi software-properties-common libnginx-mod-nchan nginx-full pip3 wheel --wheel-dir=/var/cache/certidude/wheels falcon humanize ipaddress simplepam user-agents python-ldap gssapi tar -cf certidude-server.tar /var/lib/certidude/assets/ /var/cache/apt/archives/ /var/cache/certidude/wheels Transfer certidude-server.tar or certidude-client.tar to the target machine and execute: .. code:: bash rm -fv /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb /var/cache/certidude/wheels/*.whl tar -xvf certidude-*.tar -C / dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb pip3 install --use-wheel --no-index --find-links /var/cache/certidude/wheels/*.whl Proceed to bootstrap authority without installing packages or assembling assets: certidude setup authority --skip-packages --skip-assets [--elliptic-curve] [--organization "Mycorp LLC"] Note it's highly recommended to enable nginx PPA in the target machine