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Leroy van Logchem

2007-Mar-08 12:51 UTC

[Dovecot] 1.0rc26: ssl_verify_client=yes ?

Q1)
I can't get ssl_verify_client_cert=yes working.
The ssl key and cert are signed using our CA.
Also the ssl_ca_file has a CRL appended (no revokes yet).

Expected behavior:
Stop the SSL (the client doesn't have a cert installed)

Current behavior:
Mail clients accepts SSL and login succeeds.
(both Evolution and Thunderbird).

My bad? Please advise.

Q2)
The next step, if dovecot blocks the client because
of the verify_client_cert, how to create certs for OE,
Evolution and Thunderbird?

Thanks,
Leroy

Server type: Linux Red Hat ES 4.4 (32bit)

# ./dovecot -n
# /drbd/imap/dovecot-1.0.rc26/etc/dovecot.conf
log_path: /drbd/imap/dovecot-1.0.rc26/var/dovecot.log
protocols: imaps
listen: a.b.c.39:143
ssl_listen: a.b.c.39:993
ssl_ca_file:/drbd/imap/dovecot-1.0.rc26/etc/certs/CA/cacert_with_crl.pem
ssl_cert_file:/drbd/imap/dovecot-1.0.rc26/etc/certs/CA/imaps-signedcertificate.pem
ssl_key_file:/drbd/imap/dovecot-1.0.rc26/etc/certs/CA/imaps-privatekey.pem
ssl_verify_client_cert: yes
verbose_ssl: yes
login_dir: /drbd/imap/dovecot-1.0.rc26/var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /drbd/imap/dovecot-1.0.rc26/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
verbose_proctitle: yes
mail_extra_groups: mail
mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mmap_disable: yes
mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock
imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle
auth default:
  mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 cram-md5
  verbose: yes
  passdb:
    driver: passwd-file
    args: /drbd/imap/dovecot-1.0.rc26/etc/userdb_extra
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd-file
    args: /drbd/imap/dovecot-1.0.rc26/etc/userdb_extra
  userdb:
    driver: passwd

Details (LONG) follow:

# cat cacert_with_crl.pem 
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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-----END
CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN X509 CRL-----
MIIBFzCBgTANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQQFADBSMRwwGgYDVQQKExNXTCBEZWxmdCBIeWRy
YXVsaWNzMQ4wDAYDVQQHEwVEZWxmdDEVMBMGA1UECBMMWnVpZCBIb2xsYW5kMQsw
CQYDVQQGEwJOTBcNMDcwMzA4MTIyODE5WhcNMDcwNDA3MTIyODE5WjANBgkqhkiG
9w0BAQQFAAOBgQBnXWqvR9oS674EyNHYoOmv0KeFcVqLOUpR7bVGbMYvCsMc56yy
E473NULD0EL0BZFMgGdN05e53KLnOoLiuvFuhCAxZW7o7f72lJC+wegFwROp7OOc
aKJ5lumaZ86Xb0uM8N/yJ/5xxCubrt1TYGQYPTjoQo4rJccpFy8aeqNDrA=-----END X509
CRL-----

]# cat imaps-signedcertificate.pem 
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIICHTCCAYYCAQEwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEEBQAwUjEcMBoGA1UEChMTV0wgRGVsZnQg
SHlkcmF1bGljczEOMAwGA1UEBxMFRGVsZnQxFTATBgNVBAgTDFp1aWQgSG9sbGFu
ZDELMAkGA1UEBhMCTkwwHhcNMDcwMzA4MTIyMDA2WhcNMDgwMzA3MTIyMDA2WjBc
MQswCQYDVQQGEwJOTDEVMBMGA1UECBMMWnVpZCBIb2xsYW5kMRwwGgYDVQQKExNX
TCBEZWxmdCBIeWRyYXVsaWNzMRgwFgYDVQQDEw9pbWFwLndsZGVsZnQubmwwgZ8w
DQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADgY0AMIGJAoGBALlEnCZu2o7LGp1x1rwBY2nZJH49L7by
F8GVRpnoi7wnvXV11Iy7JUd0qbyBDWNn6EiBJ2YMemSmceVpXtyxI6wbBqmq0kgn
1VmglFUcYXRx6mkXuMx17OXpqSB9jNU22ldn20h/Xr1yhJ8W/RpohG9u6jebFiF3
qJXdyjXJqPSBAgMBAAEwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEEBQADgYEAVwOhL3FICQeMJOSxil2S
K1TiN+6zjrVDq7L7t7myOkWJA6hrZcPWQZfCV5ZoWaG8nREdesKAQBRvkT6uwmcJ
3pYpc/iBTtmwCpEVjfv0Ki9VwXpWuRo0FcQkrc8MVbclwnkGmtPAJAY7Dz7U/uBf
w4N5cj1pfHltVEeD9Jb9tBo-----END CERTIFICATE-----

# cat imaps-privatekey.pem 
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
<better not include this :)>
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

Timo Sirainen

2007-Mar-08 13:43 UTC

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On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 13:51 +0100, Leroy van Logchem
wrote:> Q1)
> I can't get ssl_verify_client_cert=yes working.
> The ssl key and cert are signed using our CA.
> Also the ssl_ca_file has a CRL appended (no revokes yet).
> 
> Expected behavior:
> Stop the SSL (the client doesn't have a cert installed)
> 
> Current behavior:
> Mail clients accepts SSL and login succeeds.
> (both Evolution and Thunderbird).
> 
> My bad? Please advise.
You'll also need to set ssl_require_client_cert=yes in auth section. I
added that now to ssl_verify_client_cert's comments.
> Q2)
> The next step, if dovecot blocks the client because
> of the verify_client_cert, how to create certs for OE,
> Evolution and Thunderbird?
I don't think most clients support SSL client certificates at all,
although I know some people are using them with some clients.. Maybe
someone could add a list of the clients supporting them into wiki.
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Steffen Kaiser

2007-Mar-08 15:40 UTC

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On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> Q2)
>> The next step, if dovecot blocks the client because
>> of the verify_client_cert, how to create certs for OE,
>> Evolution and Thunderbird?
>
> I don't think most clients support SSL client certificates at all,
> although I know some people are using them with some clients.. Maybe
> someone could add a list of the clients supporting them into wiki.
Er, a dummy question, I guess:
Can you use client certs to login into Dovecot?
Aka can use the certs as "passdb"?

Bye,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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Leroy van Logchem

2007-Mar-08 15:45 UTC

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[Dovecot] 1.0rc26: ssl_verify_client=yes ?

> You'll also need to set ssl_require_client_cert=yes in auth section. I
> added that now to ssl_verify_client_cert's comments.
Confirmed: "Client didn't present valid SSL certificate"
Thanks for the swift response :)
> > Q2)
> > The next step, if dovecot blocks the client because
> > of the verify_client_cert, how to create certs for OE,
> > Evolution and Thunderbird?
> 
> I don't think most clients support SSL client certificates at all,
> although I know some people are using them with some clients.. Maybe
> someone could add a list of the clients supporting them into wiki.
Comments are welcome while figuring it out. I'll reply with
a few lines of howto when it works.

Apostolis Papagiannakis

2007-Mar-09 09:40 UTC

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>
> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:13:48 +0200
> From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 1.0rc26: ssl_verify_client=yes ?
>
> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 16:40 +0100, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>   
>>
>> > On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> > 
>>     
>>>> > >> Q2)
>>>> > >> The next step, if dovecot blocks the client
because
>>>> > >> of the verify_client_cert, how to create certs
for OE,
>>>> > >> Evolution and Thunderbird?
>>>>         
>>> > >
>>> > > I don't think most clients support SSL client
certificates at all,
>>> > > although I know some people are using them with some
clients.. Maybe
>>> > > someone could add a list of the clients supporting them
into wiki.
>>>       
>> > 
>> > Er, a dummy question, I guess:
>> > Can you use client certs to login into Dovecot?
>> > Aka can use the certs as "passdb"?
>>     
>
> Yes. It will still need some passdb, but you could use null password and
> ssl_username_from_cert=yes settings in which case it doesn't matter
what
> user/password is used to log in.
>
> But it circumvents Dovecot's login/auth process security model, so I
> don't recommend it that much. Maybe some day I'll make login
process
> forward the client cert to dovecot-auth which does the actual
> verification.
>       I have successfully tested ssl_username_from_cert and found no real 
problem, apart from the fact that
dovecot "username" takes the value of  the certificate "CN"
attribute ,
instead of the email attribute (in
my case "Apostolos Papayanakis" instead of apap/ at /ccf.auth.gr). 
Everything else works as expected (eg,
further userdb lookups based on certificate CN).
    Our University has issued a few thousand certificates with subjects 
such as
"/C=GR/O=Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/OU=Network Operations 
Center/CN=Apostolos Papayanakis/emailAddress=apap/ at /ccf.auth.gr",
that are used for administrative purposes. We would be very happy to use 
them as an alternative
method of IMAP/POP3 authentication. However certificate CNs are not 
unique (e.g. "John Smith") and we
would like to avoid constantly patching dovecot to use the email (or 
other) attribute from the certificate.

I think replacing
    NID_commonName
with
    NID_pkcs9_emailAddress ( or NID_subject_key_identifier, or 
NID_subject_alt_name)
in login-common/ssl-proxy-openssl.c, line 527 would suffice.
(X509_NAME_get_text_by_NID(X509_get_subject_name(x509), NID_commonName, 
buf, sizeof(buf)) < 0).

Maybe I should post a complete patch if Timo is interested.

Apostolis


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Steffen Kaiser

2007-Mar-09 10:02 UTC

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On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Apostolis Papagiannakis wrote:
> Maybe I should post a complete patch if Timo is interested.
Actually, I never thought in this direction, therefore, if it's working, 
how about you note down your "success story" in the Wiki? Along with
your
setup. ;-)

I wonder if I can use the certs of our OpenVPN framework ... .

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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