Posted May 14, 2008
New certificate on weblion.psu.edu
We got a new HTTPS certificate. If connecting to our server for a Subversion commit, you may be prompted to accept the new certificate.
Thanks to a Debian bug, we had to get a new HTTPS certificate for weblion.psu.edu. Thus, next time you do a Subversion commit, you might be prompted to trust the new certificate:
Error validating server certificate for 'https://weblion.psu.edu:443':
- The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
Certificate information:
- Hostname: weblion.psu.edu
- Valid: from Wed, 14 May 2008 15:28:35 GMT until Thu, 14 May 2009 15:28:35 GMT
- Issuer: Certification Services Division, Thawte Consulting cc, Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA
- Fingerprint: ba:a8:af:26:66:df:0d:a7:ec:0f:01:d3:c0:7e:24:6c:a9:c1:67:37
(R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently?
Actually, the message is inaccurate; the certificate is signed by Thawte, a.k.a. Verisign, a trusted authority if ever there was one. Answer "p". If you're paranoid, you can verify that the Fingerprint is as above. Incidentally, our SSH host key will not change, since it was old enough to be unaffected by the bug.
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