[20960] in Athena Bugs
Re: Proposed Stock Answer, topic WEB (Mozilla)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Oct 22 20:42:38 2002
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:42:35 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>, Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
Cc: olc-stock@MIT.EDU, tbelton@MIT.EDU, bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU,
Chris Toepel <ctoepel@MIT.EDU>
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Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU> wrote on Tue, 22 Oct 2002
at 18:04:20 -0400 in <200210222204.SAA14446@red-herring.mit.edu>:
> How about:
>
> This is a caused by a Mozilla bug, which seems to be triggered by
> importing some certificates from Netscape. The solution is to obtain
> new certificates with Mozilla, after deleting all of the imported
> certificates.
This is misleading, since it implies that imported certificates are
the only ones deleted; it is also not chronological. Also, the "some"
seems superflous. I'd suggest:
-- This is a caused by a Mozilla bug, which seems to be triggered by
-- importing certificates from Netscape, which happens automatically
-- the first time you run Mozilla. The solution is delete your
-- Mozilla certificates (derived from Netscape), and then to obtain
-- new certificates with Mozilla.
On the issue of which URL to list, I will admit to being annoyed that
web/is/help/cert fails to encourage you to verify the fingerprint of
the MIT CA certificate before installing it.
Also, http://web.mit.edu/is/help/cert/mitca.html gives Netscape
instructions but not Mozilla ones. I guess the upshot of this discussion
is that no one feels the need to communicate with the maintainers of that
page, so I will do it myself...
--jhawk
