scheduler SSL certificate issues
17 Sep 2019 16:18:57 UTC
Topic 219605
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Since last week's update .. I'm having some trouble connecting to the scheduler due to certificate issues. For example
ERROR: cannot verify scheduler.einsteinathome.org's certificate, issued by `/C=DE/O=Verein zur Foerderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e. V./OU=DFN-PKI/CN=DFN-Verein Global Issuing CA':
Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
This is on some older Linux systems running boinc 7.4.52. Do I need to update anything? Everything was fine until last week.
Best, Gaurav
Hi Gaurav, where exactly do
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Hi Gaurav,
where exactly do you see these messages? We haven't touched the certificates at all, but the errors you see indicate a problem with the request handling: scheduler.einsteinathome.org isn't using a DFN certificate at all, it's issued by InCommon/Internet2, like our main website. That new (11/2018) certificate should be supported by BOINC > 7.2, so that shouldn't be the problem here.
Oliver
Einstein@Home Project
I minor tweak .. using
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A very minor tweak .. using libcurl version 4.2 (as opposed to the 4.0 version I had previously) appears to have fixed this issue. Thanks.
Great news, thanks for the
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Great news, thanks for the update!
Einstein@Home Project