[cvsnt-dev] Re: Re[2]: cvs.cvsnt.org is down??

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Mon Aug 1 14:24:05 BST 2005


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Richard Wirth wrote:

> Server certificate verification failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain
> 
> BTW. Why is a self signed certificate a cause for failing?? At the
> moment at one of my customers I use a self signed certificate
> exlusively :(

That's just openssl being braindead... it means the certificate chain is 
broken.

A self sign certificate must have no chain.  If it sees a chain that it 
can't resolve to a CA then it assumes the chain contains self signed 
certificates and generates that error.

Tony


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