Certificate passwords

[chemical]

I’m trying to connect to zeroshell host-to-LAN VPN with Mac OSX built-in client but I can’t get the user certificate installed inot Keychain Access without it asking me for the certificate password.

I tried using all the passwords I could think of related to zeroshell but none work. I’ve exported the certificates in all available formats and still it asks for a cert password.

How can I tell what the password for the cert is so I can get it installed into OS X?

Thanks!
Dustin

[imported_fulvio]

At moment Zeroshell does not protect the x.509 cetificates with a password. I have not tried the Mac OS X l2tp/IPSec client and hence I don’t know why it asks for a password. Did you try a blank password?

Regards
Fulvio

[chemical]

I tried a blank password and the OS X Keychain Access app still gives the CSP_INVALID_DATA error (meaning the user entered the wrong certificate password).

Those same certs work on XP if I just hit enter at the password prompt, though, so it’s definitely OS X being picky about it.

If I generate the certs with OpenSSL at the command line with passwords and move them into the zeroshell ssl/certs dir, will that work, or must they be generated within the GUI?

Thanks for your help,
Dustin

[chemical]

I modified /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf and set input_password and output_password to something and tried to regen the certificates; still does not work.

Then I found a page on the web about certificates being used by the OS X client: http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/openswan-macosx.html#Certs

Seems that OS X will not accept a server certificate in distinguished name format (which they appear to be generated as) without adding user_cert option subjectAltName=DNS:

Of course it’s not possible to do this as the changes made to openssl.cnf are wiped out after a reboot.

If I understand correctly (and I probably don’t), this makes zeroshell config incompatible with OS X clients as far as x.509 VPN access goes?

[imported_fulvio]

Thank you for the hints. I am going to apply them as soon as possible. I hope in the next release.

Regards
Fulvio

[greyman]

I think I might have found us OSX users a short work around from here:

http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/freeswan-panther.html

Below is a cut and paste from section 8.4.1 of the page.

8.4.1 Alternative method of importing the machine certificate

If you are a die-hard command line fan you can use the utility ‘certtool’ that is included with Mac OS X. It works for me but I did not look into this much because the command line scares off most users. Anyway, here are the commands for importing a file in PKCS#12 format. This example assume the file is called ‘yourcrt.p12’.

openssl pkcs12 -in yourcrt.p12 -cacerts -out ca.pem -nokeys

openssl pkcs12 -in yourcrt.p12 -clcerts -out client.pem -nokeys

openssl pkcs12 -in yourcrt.p12 -nocerts -out key.pem -nodes

cp /System/Library/Keychains/X509Anchors $HOME/Library/Keychains/X509Anchors.bkp

cp /Library/Keychains/System.keychain $HOME/Library/Keychains/System.keychain.bkp

certtool i ca.pem k=X509anchors.bkp v

certtool i client.pem r=key.pem f=1 k=System.keychain.bkp v

sudo cp $HOME/Library/Keychains/X509Anchors.bkp /System/Library/Keychains/X509Anchors

sudo cp $HOME/Library/Keychains/System.keychain.bkp /Library/Keychains/System.keychain

rm -fr ca.pem client.pem key.pem

You will be asked three times for the certificate password. After that, you will be asked for the Keychain Access password and then for your login password.

A word of advice: copy, paste and execute these lines one by one in a Terminal window. Typing them is error prone.

In doing the steps above it allowed me toimport a user certificate and a host certificate to allow me to configure L2TP from internet conect using only certs.

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