Adding cert to truststore

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nikkorizz

Hello,

I am having difficulty importing a 3rd party CA into my truststore. I installed Alfresco without a hitch and I could login just fine, that is, until I started messing with the truststore files. Now I am unable to login at all, even when accessing Alfresco using the non-SSL port. I get the following error:

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.social.twitter.connect.TwitterConnectionFactory]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failure initializing default SSL context
        at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:141)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:108)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:280)
        … 45 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failure initializing default SSL context
        at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.createDefaultSSLContext(SSLSocketFactory.java:211)
        at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.<init>(SSLSocketFactory.java:333)
        at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.getSocketFactory(SSLSocketFactory.java:165)
        at org.springframework.social.support.HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory$HttpComponentsClient_4_1.getInstance(HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory.java:185)
        at org.springframework.social.support.HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory.<init>(HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory.java:79)
        at org.springframework.social.support.ClientHttpRequestFactorySelector$HttpComponentsClientRequestFactoryCreator$1.<init>(ClientHttpRequestFactorySelector.java:68)
        at org.springframework.social.support.ClientHttpRequestFactorySelector$HttpComponentsClientRequestFactoryCreator.createRequestFactory(ClientHttpRequestFactorySelector.java:68)
        at org.springframework.social.support.ClientHttpRequestFactorySelector.getRequestFactory(ClientHttpRequestFactorySelector.java:44)
        at org.springframework.social.oauth1.OAuth1Template.createRestTemplate(OAuth1Template.java:169)
        at org.springframework.social.oauth1.OAuth1Template.<init>(OAuth1Template.java:92)
        at org.springframework.social.oauth1.OAuth1Template.<init>(OAuth1Template.java:76)
        at org.springframework.social.twitter.connect.TwitterServiceProvider.<init>(TwitterServiceProvider.java:31)
        at org.springframework.social.twitter.connect.TwitterConnectionFactory.<init>(TwitterConnectionFactory.java:28)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
        at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:126)
        … 47 more
Caused by: java.security.KeyStoreException: problem accessing trust storejava.io.IOException: Invalid keystore format
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.TrustManagerFactoryImpl.engineInit(TrustManagerFactoryImpl.java:55)
        at javax.net.ssl.TrustManagerFactory.init(TrustManagerFactory.java:230)
        at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.createSSLContext(SSLSocketFactory.java:190)
        at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.createDefaultSSLContext(SSLSocketFactory.java:209)
        … 64 more
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I'm trying to import a certificate into my truststore files using the following command:

/opt/alfresco-4.0.d/java/jre/bin/keytool -import -alias my.ca -file my.crt -keystore ssl.keystore -storetype JCEKS ‍

My server DOES have another version of JAVA installed, so I made sure to explicitly use the keytool that comes with Alfresco's JAVA installation. Also, for troubleshooting purposes, I did not rename any of the passwords.

Since there are several truststore files, I ran the keytool command on the following files:

/opt/alfresco-4.0.d/alf_data/keystore/ssl.truststore
/opt/alfresco-4.0.d/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/keystore/ssl.truststore
/opt/alfresco-4.0.d/java/jre/lib/security/cacerts‍‍‍

The keytool imports the certificate into the truststore just fine, but once I restarted Alfresco, I am unable to log in and I get the errors above. At this point, I figured that I should add my new alias to the ssl-truststore-passwords.properties file, but I still get the exact same error.

Any ideas what I could be doing wrong? Nothing else about my Alfresco installation has changed except for the truststore files. All truststore default passwords remain unchanged.

For additional information, I'm using:
Fedora 12 64-bit
alfresco-4.0.d
MySQL  5.1.47

chrisokelly

Hi,

Did you manage to solve this problem? Our keystore expired yesterday and we receive this error after attempting to recreate it. I am trying to get it using our actual CA signed certificates but get the same even just following the .txt instructions to create the keystore using the Alfresco CA. We've been offline for 5 hours now while I try to figure it out.