Self-signed cert and Pidgin.
Joshua Judson Rosen
rozzin at hackerposse.com
Mon Mar 30 19:11:08 EDT 2015
Is the `Tools -> Certificates' option in the menu of any use?
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On 2015-03-30 10:25, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> Hey, all. I've got a cert that has two "problems" with it:
>
> 1) It's self-signed, and
> 2) Its associated with a hostname that's inaccessible externally; the
> *service* is accessible externally, but through port forwarding.
>
> To work around #2, I set up an /etc/hosts entry; based on what I
> understand about SSL (or *think* I understand; I'm pretty hazy on
> certain parts), that should be okay. But #1 seems to be an issue. When
> I try to fire up Pidgin, here's what I get:
> -----------------
> Unable to validate certificate
> The certificate for foo.com could not be validated. The certificate
> chain presented is invalid.
> -----------------
>
> I've googled until I'm blue in the face, tried to toggle the various
> features in the advanced tab in Pidgin's XMMP settings, tried to copy
> the PEM file everywhere and running various update-ca-certificates
> commands, etc., to no avail. (Truly, it astonishes me that there's no
> "accept the damn cert, already" feature, but not sure what's to be done
> about that.)
>
> Anyone have this issue? Any suggestions on a work-around? The
> surprising thing is that this is relatively new; my home machine works
> fine. I almost wonder if it's an Ubuntu "feature," as my Mint system
> seems happy enough -- maybe something's been updated in SSL or somesuch,
> and it hasn't percolated to Mint yet. Though as I haven't done a new
> Mint install, even that's pure speculation on my part.
>
> Thanks for any insights...
>
> -Ken
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