Regenerate included self-signed SSL certificate with less than 825 day validity period

[timwood]

Issue Type

• Bug Report / Support Request

Your Environment

$ vagrant --version && echo "VirtualBox `vboxmanage --version`" && ansible --version
Vagrant 2.2.6
VirtualBox 6.0.14r133895
-bash: ansible: command not found

Your OS

• macOS (Catalina 10.15.2)

Summary

Make sure DrupalVM self-signed SSL certificate meets latest Apple MacOS requirements/constraints from Catalina (https://superuser.com/a/1492657). Catalina now requires that SSL certificates issued after 7/1/2019 include the following constraints:

• The ExtendedKeyUsage extension must be present, with the id-kp-ServerAuth OID.
• The validity period may not be longer than 825 days.

I'm pretty sure my issue is due to the validity period going till 2029, much longer than 825 days, but I didn't know how to check for the other constraint listed above. The error Chrome throws is NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED and it doesn't allow you to pass the certificate error screen with an exclusion. But the typing thisisunsafe trick works.

[phizev]

@timwood I've been using workaround Ansible tasks on Ubuntu 18.04 for this for a while, this should also allow the server to make HTTPS requests to itself without having to accept invalid certificates. It should cover all of the tighter certificate requirements, which I believe are also going to impact software beyond MacOS in time. The tasks below should be self-explanatory as to what they are doing. The script which is modified has the 10 year period hard coded within it. While this is not a proper fix for the issue, it has resolved the issue for my requirements.

It also leads to a certificate which is wildcarded for subdomains of {{ vagrant_hostname }}.

It needs to go into the location referred to by post_provision_tasks_dir: "{{ config_dir }}/my/tasks/", in your config.yml.

---
# This is a gross way of handling this, but given that it's for a dev environment,
# time/benefit trade off, and grossness of current workaround...
- name: Set hostnames for snakeoil certificate, and alter extendedKeyUsage.
  lineinfile:
    path: /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf
    regexp: "{{ item.regex }}"
    line: "{{ item.line }}"
  with_items:
    - { regex: '^commonName', line: "commonName = {{ vagrant_hostname }}" }
    - { regex: '^subjectAltName', line: "subjectAltName = DNS:{{ vagrant_hostname }},DNS:*.{{ vagrant_hostname }},IP:{{ vagrant_ip }}" }
    - { regex: '^extendedKeyUsage', line: "extendedKeyUsage = serverAuth" }

- name: Modify script to reduce validity period to 2 years.
  replace:
    path: /usr/sbin/make-ssl-cert
    regexp: '(.*)-days \d+(.*)'
    replace: '\1-days 730\2'

- name: Regenerate snakeoil certificate.
  command: /usr/sbin/make-ssl-cert generate-default-snakeoil --force-overwrite
  notify:
    - restart webserver
    - restart postfix

- name: Regenerate the certificate store.
  command: /usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates --fresh

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[joestewart]

This is still valuable information.

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[geerlingguy]

@joestewart - I believe the SSL cert that's created was set up by the OS itself, and that Drupal VM's automation doesn't actually do any of the work in generating a cert... is this something that might benefit more from some documentation?

Or I guess maybe we could touch it up in a new task include—as I see @phizev's solution modifies the snakeoil cert to work with the right time period. One annoying thing as that the solution is specific to Ubuntu, and I don't believe it would work out of the box with Debian or CentOS.

[geerlingguy]

Not Mac-specific, so removing that label.

[jonnyeom]

I really like @phizev 's solution. It works super solid on every project of mine.
I think this could be an option/feature to add.