Webmin blocked by certificate problem

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:30:42 -0600
Andrew Mathews <andrew_mathews at linux-works.org> wrote:

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> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> | I'm trying to make an old COL 3.1.1 workstation share a printer
> | with my RH7.3 system, and for various reasons I'm not able to
> | just change it up to a later distro.
> |
> | The problem is that when I point a browser at https://localhost:10000
> | I get this dialog box that says "Could not establish an encrypted
> | connection because certificate presented by localhost is invalid
> | or corrupted.  Error Code -8182".
> |
> | Now I know next to nothing about certificates, SSL, or webmin,
> | and I don't really know where to start on this.  Anyone with
> | some experience with these things?
> |
> | As far as I know, Webmin is the only GUI tool around, and I was
> | hoping to use it for this chore.
> |
> | ++ kevin
> |
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> You need to regenerate your /etc/webmin/miniserv.pem with openssl,
> though I don't remember the specifics offhand. You might try copying the
> original in /usr/libexec/webmin/ also. Easiest way would be to edit
> /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf and change to ssl=0 then restart webmin to
> take it out of ssl mode so you can log in via straight http and do the
> certificate generation through webmin itself.

Interesting. I never did get the Col 3.1.1 cupdate to function again
(boring thread a while back). It, too, complained about certificates. I
tried all that was suggested to no avail. No one suggested anything like
this. How do you regenerate certificates? I know that one suggestion was to
reinstall the COL certificates (it is one of the RPMs and may help the
webmin problem), but that did not help me. However, your mention of an
original and, presumably, a copy, sounds interesting. What is all this
about?



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