[23448] in Athena Bugs
Minor Mozilla certificate problem (Re: Reminder: Athena 9.2.15 patch release)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Cavin)
Tue Aug 5 10:49:14 2003
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Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:49:12 -0400
From: Tom Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
To: Daniel Jamous <jamous@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Athena Bugs list <bugs@MIT.EDU>, Tom Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
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Hi All,
Just to chime in on this, it happened to me, too. I'm fairly sure I
renewed my certificate early last month, but the first time I used it in
August it was invalid and I needed to renew it.
(I'm running Linux Athena version 9.1.27.)
New information: when this happened to me yesterday (I needed a
certificate to submit a facilities request) I obtained a new certificate
and backed up my certificates.
1) Last night I had to reboot my system without exiting normally.
2) This morning I again had no valid certificates
3) I was able to restore my valid certificate from yesterday's backup
4) After exiting Mozilla and reentering today, I kept my certificates
My immediate suspicion is that Mozilla doesn't save certificates to disk
until it exits, and that killing the program without allowing it to exit
gracefully will cause you to lose new certificates.
Hope this helps,
--Tom
Daniel Jamous writes:
> Hi,
>
> Not sure whether this is a bug or not but I thought I would let you know:
>
> I had to renew my personal certificate on my Mozilla 1.4 Linux Athena even
> though I had renewed it last week.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel
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Tom Cavin Phone: (617) 258 - 7806
Computer Operations Manager Email: cavin@mit.edu
MIT - Whitaker College Computer Facility or tec@ai.mit.edu
