[Samba] problems connecting to https list server

[David Mathog]

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> John H Terpstra wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 October 2008 11:27:10 David Mathog wrote:
> >> When I attempt to contact the server for this list
> >>
> >>   https://lists.samba.org/
> >>
> >> with Seamonkey or Mozilla it refuses and puts up a message:
> >>
> >>   !
> >>   You have requested an invalid certificate.  Please contact the
> >>   server administrator or email correspondent and give them the
> >>   following information:
> >>
> >>   Your certificate contains the same serial number as another
> >>   certificate issued by the certificate authority.  Please get a
> >>   new certificate containing a unique serial number.
> >>
> >> Just me, or are other people seeing this too?
> > 
> > Everyone sees that.  It is a self-signed certificate.
> 
> No.  Not a self-signed cert.  We run our own CA.  but the reason
> for the mesg is that the brower has an old expired cert from
> a samba.org addess left around.
> 
> I should really get around to fixing this
> 

In the meantime, how does one induce a Mozilla/Seamonkey browser to get
past that dialog and allow a connection?  The only option on the
dialog is "OK", and clicking that does not connect.

Thanks,

David Mathog
mathog at caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech