Fog client installation error - Cannot install CA certificate
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@jonhwood360 said in Fog client installation error - Cannot install CA certificate:
I have tried manually importing the CA certificate and rerunning the install, and it fails at the same task. If you’d like I can retry this and screenshot the logs?
I might have mixed things up a bit and explained too little. What I meant is: in your first post you mentioned installing without HTTPS enabled (which seems to work), then change settings.json to enable HTTPS and start the FOGService. This will fail on authenticating against the FOG server when trying to load srvpublic.crt, correct?
As a workaround for now you can run the fog-client over HTTP. The communication protocol used by the fog-client will encrypt all information using state of the art certificate based crypto anyway. This encryption is part of the fog-client since a couple of years and still in place even if you use HTTPS - which then would be a double encrypted channel really.
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@jonhwood360 I just quickly tested on Windows 10 2004 (latest updates installed including 2021-01 .NET updates) and it installs and downloads the certs just fine.
I know this is not of much help to you yet but from that I would expect this to not be a general issue for everyone.
As I said, I will try to add some more debug output and compile a custom installer for you to test - probably not today though.
Just another question that came to my mind. You use the SmartInstaller.exe. Have you tried the MSI yet? Essentially the SmartInstaller has the MSI included, will extract it and call msiexec to install it. So there should be really no difference at all but please give it a try to make sure we see the same issue with both.
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@sebastian-roth said in Fog client installation error - Cannot install CA certificate:
@jonhwood360 I just quickly tested on Windows 10 2004 (latest updates installed including 2021-01 .NET updates) and it installs and downloads the certs just fine.
I know this is not of much help to you yet but from that I would expect this to not be a general issue for everyone.
As I said, I will try to add some more debug output and compile a custom installer for you to test - probably not today though.
Just another question that came to my mind. You use the SmartInstaller.exe. Have you tried the MSI yet? Essentially the SmartInstaller has the MSI included, will extract it and call msiexec to install it. So there should be really no difference at all but please give it a try to make sure we see the same issue with both.
Yes I have tried the MSI as well. I’ve tried running the smartinstaller as administrator, and installing the msi from an elevated command prompt as well.
I too am surprised about this. I wonder if this is a function of it the computer being in Audit mode (ctrl-shift-F3 at OS first boot right after install from media)?
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@jonhwood360 said in Fog client installation error - Cannot install CA certificate:
I wonder if this is a function of it the computer being in Audit mode (ctrl-shift-F3 at OS first boot right after install from media)?
Hmmm, I am not much of a Windows wiz, so can’t say. Would you have an idea @george1421 if that is possible?
Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)
Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG
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So as a test I manually installed the certificate into the certificate store. I confirmed it was in fact installed through the certificate snapin in mmc. When I try to install the client, the certificate disappears from the store once it says it can’t install the certificate.
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@sebastian-roth said in Fog client installation error - Cannot install CA certificate:
Would you have an idea @george1421 if that is possible?
I’m not sure how much help I can be, because we haven’t used the fog client in over 5 years. When we did use it we would load the service using MDT and then stop and disable the service right away just after it was installed. Then after sysprep and cloning we would restart it in the setupcompleted.cmd. We never touched audit mode because MDT did that part for us. We did use the MSI with command line parameters to install the fog client back then.
So one might wonder what the fog client uses to download the certificate? curl? Could MS have deprecated what the fog client uses to download files?
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@george1421 said in Fog client installation error - Cannot install CA certificate:
So one might wonder what the fog client uses to download the certificate? curl? Could MS have deprecated what the fog client uses to download files?
The fog-client uses WebClient.DownloadFile() - an officially provided function within the System.Net namespace provided by MS.
A quick search on the web didn’t reveal much about audit mode behaving differently with .NET calls or the cert store. Though I don’t know enough about it…
@jonhwood360 True, the fog-client installer will remove any cert from the store named “FOG Server CA” it finds before it loads the current one from the server to install that. It’s a way of making sure the right CA cert is being installed even if there are left overs from an old install.
Did you manually edit the Apache configuration or left it as generated by the FOG installer?
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@jonhwood360 Quickly added some debugging output and compiled a fresh MSI for you: https://github.com/FOGProject/fog-client/releases/download/0.12.0/FOGService_debug_CAcert.msi
This is not an official build but it will do a good job finding out what’s going wrong in your case I hope. Try installing with that MSI and then check the FOGService.install.log again. You should see more output in there than you had before. Post the new log output here.
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@sebastian-roth said in Fog client installation error - Cannot install CA certificate:
Did you manually edit the Apache configuration or left it as generated by the FOG installer?
No I did not.
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@sebastian-roth said in Fog client installation error - Cannot install CA certificate:
@jonhwood360 Quickly added some debugging output and compiled a fresh MSI for you: https://github.com/FOGProject/fog-client/releases/download/0.12.0/FOGService_debug_CAcert.msi
This is not an official build but it will do a good job finding out what’s going wrong in your case I hope. Try installing with that MSI and then check the FOGService.install.log again. You should see more output in there than you had before. Post the new log output here.
Here you go.
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@jonhwood360 Didn’t expect it to bail out that early. So it doesn’t even get to where I expected it to fail (SSL/TLS cert validity check).
Could you please try installing the fog-client on a system that is not in audit mode? Just want to make sure this has no effect.
The other thing we might take a look at is a network packet capture. Get the fog-client setup ready to the same point as last time when we looked at the Apache log files. Then run the following commands on your FOG server:
sudo -i apt install tcpdump tcpdump -nn -w /tmp/ssl.pcap host 10.40.40.14Make sure you put in the IP address of the host you are trying to install fog-client on. Now leave the command sit there and finish the fog-client setup. After it failed, stop tcpdump (ctrl-c) and use WinSCP (or another secure copy tool) to copy the binary file /tmp/ssl.pcap over to another computer. Upload to any filesharing service you have access to and post a link here.
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@sebastian-roth said in Fog client installation error - Cannot install CA certificate:
@jonhwood360 Didn’t expect it to bail out that early. So it doesn’t even get to where I expected it to fail (SSL/TLS cert validity check).
Could you please try installing the fog-client on a system that is not in audit mode? Just want to make sure this has no effect.
The other thing we might take a look at is a network packet capture.
Here is the packet capture:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KM4WAsPPF43tVDomDUuR_HOEU_4bZ6oB/view?usp=sharing -
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fog apache config
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@jonhwood360 The PCAP looks like the host sends a TLS Client Hello using TLS 1.0 and the Apache server rejects it. Have you disabled newer TLS versions via GPO by any chance??
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@sebastian-roth said in Fog client installation error - Cannot install CA certificate:
@jonhwood360 The PCAP looks like the host sends a TLS Client Hello using TLS 1.0 and the Apache server rejects it. Have you disabled newer TLS versions via GPO by any chance??
No, no GPOs are applied. The apache server is on ubuntu. I can try to force enable newer TLS versions on the workstations. Is ver 1.2 sufficient?
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@jonhwood360 said in Fog client installation error - Cannot install CA certificate:
@sebastian-roth said in Fog client installation error - Cannot install CA certificate:
@jonhwood360 The PCAP looks like the host sends a TLS Client Hello using TLS 1.0 and the Apache server rejects it. Have you disabled newer TLS versions via GPO by any chance??
No, no GPOs are applied. The apache server is on ubuntu. I can try to force enable newer TLS versions on the workstations. Is ver 1.2 sufficient?
I reattempted install after hard enabling tls 1.1 and 1.2 in the registry of the machine. No change.
I also took another pcap: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19u1RKug2OwFOHC4S_l0bDT1uK7bbhR0I/view?usp=sharing
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PCAP from workstation as well - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-lML_qrJ18nv3T7HQ3zsW9M9vUD3NOU/view?usp=sharing
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@sebastian-roth said in Fog client installation error - Cannot install CA certificate:
The PCAP looks like the host sends a TLS Client Hello using TLS 1.0 and the Apache server rejects it. Have you disabled newer TLS versions via GPO by any chance??
Sorry, I wrote this without having had the time to test this on my side. I just found the time to do capture a PCAP in my test setup and it seems to use TLS 1.0 as well. Reading more about this on the we I found that it still seems to be the default in .NET framework 4.5.x which we use since fog-client version 0.12.0 (before we still used .NET 4.0, OMG).
Ok that explains why we both see TLS 1.0 in the PCAP but to it’s still a riddle why your Apache server rejects the request while mine doesn’t. Plus we haven’t heard from other users so far. Maybe this Ubuntu moved to some newer versions of Apache (and maybe openssl) not long ago that now reject TLS 1.0 completely.
I will try to force using of TLS 1.1 and newer in our code and upload a new installer for you to test soon.
Thanks a lot for working on this with me! While at first I thought this is not a general issue it seems to actually be and you are the first one to report it.
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@jonhwood360 Ok, here you go for another try: https://github.com/FOGProject/fog-client/releases/download/0.12.0/FOGService_enable_TLS12.msi
See if it can successfully pin to the FOG server with that and post a picture of the FOGService.install log as well.
Keep in mind, this is not for official deployment for various reasons.
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@sebastian-roth said in Fog client installation error - Cannot install CA certificate:
@jonhwood360 Ok, here you go for another try: https://github.com/FOGProject/fog-client/releases/download/0.12.0/FOGService_enable_TLS12.msi
See if it can successfully pin to the FOG server with that and post a picture of the FOGService.install log as well.
Keep in mind, this is not for official deployment for various reasons.
We have a winner!
So it seems that newer apache does not like the 1.0 connections.
