Re: Major gaffe: net-auth SSL certificate expired

In the message "[Micronet] Major gaffe: net-auth SSL certificate
expired", dated 2005-08-01, Tom Holub wrote:

>It appears that the SSL certificate of net-auth.berkeley.edu (the
>Authentication Web Server which provides CalNet authentication to dozens
>of applications on campus) expired as of 5PM today. I'm already getting
>user complaints.

At 18:13 -0700 2005-08-01, Mike Friedman wrote:
>The CalNet folks have installed a renewed certificate on the
>authentication servers. The new cert is good for another two years.

   Rob Chevalier sent the following to the CalNet developers' list,
explaining what happened; thought this would also be of interest to
Micronetters:

>I have just installed the renewed SSL certificate for
>'net-auth.berkeley.edu' (the CalNet AWS Service) as of 6PM this evening.
>Though the existing certificate expired today (supposedly at midnight
>tonight), there were reports that a few clients started rejecting the
>expired certificate beginning at 5PM. Now that the renewed certificate is
>in place, these few clients should be operational again.

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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Received on Tue Aug 2 10:37:57 2005