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[Derek Atkins]

On Tue, August 10, 2010 7:32 pm, Donald Allen wrote:
>
>  or even tried to register to gnucash-user, or
>> gnucash-devel, I received the same error popup from Firefox: "This
>> connection is untrusted. You have asked Firefox to connect securely to
>> lists.gnucash.org, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.
>> Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted
>> identification to prove that you are going to the right place.  However,
>> this site's identity can't be verified."  Only once before have I ever
>> got
>> that message.  I'm extensively on the Internet, so it is very, very rare
>> I
>> get that message.  Can you help?
>
> You get this error when attempting to make a secure connection to a
> site whose certificate isn't signed (verified) by a trusted signing
> authority. I've not seen this on the gnucash site myself and again, it
> would help if you provided the link. You can force Firefox to "trust"
> the site. If you follow your nose when you get the popup, you should
> be able to figure out how.
>
> I'm guessing here, but Derek Atkins sent a message earlier about
> problems with the gnucash server. He's managed to coax it back to
> life, but it may not be completely well. The error you are seeing
> *could* be related to that, but again, I'm guessing here.

Yep, you're just guessing.  Sorry.  The outage has nothing to do with thie
firefox warning.  Indeed, the GnuCash servers *do* use a self-signed SSL
certificate.  So you just need to tell Firefox to accept it.

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-derek

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