Topic: Why am I getting this email??

[edlentz]

I recently upgraded to 7.0rc3 from rc2.  And all of the sudden I am getting  (I am the admin email for this system) this strange email:


/etc/cron.daily/conf-mod_ssl:

You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
-----
Country Name (2 letter code) [GB]:State or Province Name (full name) [Berkshire]:Locality Name (eg, city) [Newbury]:Organization Name (eg, company) [My Company Ltd]:Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:Email Address []:

Can someone explain this to me?

Thanks!

[spangler]

edlentz

I am also getting the same email, every morning, am also running 7.03rc system.

Do you also get a warning when connecting via the server-manager that your internet app can't veryfy the identity of your website?

Just wondering if there is a connection.

Sorry I can't help any.

spangler

[loek]

This is a message about the creation of a new certificate for Apache SSL connections. The certificate is created automatically (using default values).

Nothing to worry about.

And as long as you don't buy a signed certificate (by a known certificate provider) you're browser will give this warning mentioned by spangler, so yes, there is some connection. (It's possible to sign your own certificate, but then other users won't automatically recognize that it's valid).

Loek

[edlentz]

Loek, thanks for the reply.  I suspected it was something like that.  Is there a way to turn off the email other than getting a certificate?  I am just using SME for a small office server.  If I could find an easy way to get PHP5 amdn MySql5 installed I would be a real happy guy.

[calisun]

Does the certificate keep changing? When I connect to webmail from a remote desktop, I get a massage about certificate.... and I click on "accept certificate from this site permanantly" but the next day I get the same window. This never happened before I upgraded to RC3, in RC1 and RC2, when I said to accept, this winow would not come up again.

[sonoracomm]

I'm getting this message too on a box updated to RC3.

Essentially, it's just the output of the /etc/cron.daily/conf-mod_ssl cron job.

If I run the command manually, I get the same results as contained in the e-mail message:

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[root@mail ~]# /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /home/e-smith/ssl.pem/pem
You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
-----
Country Name (2 letter code) [GB]:State or Province Name (full name) [Berkshire]:Locality Name (eg, city) [Newbury]:Organization Name (eg, company) [My Company Ltd]:Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:Email Address []:

This is the contents of /etc/cron.daily/conf-mod_ssl:

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[root@mail ~]# cat /etc/cron.daily/conf-mod_ssl
#! /bin/sh

exec /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /home/e-smith/ssl.pem/pem

I compared the cron job to an RC1 box and it's the same.  However, if I manually run the command on the RC1 box, there is no output.

If I cat the file being created (created? expanded?)

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cat /home/e-smith/ssl.pem/fqdn.of.server.pem

it shows a private key and a certificate, just like on the RC1 box.

Permissions are the same.

What has changed to generate the output/e-mail?

Thanks for any suggestions,

G

p.s.  If we think this is a bug, I'll enter it on bugtracker...do we think this is a bug or just something I've done wrong?

[calisun]

looks like someone already has posted a bug.

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1602

If I were you, I would write down there what you said here regarding your test, and past output like you did here.

[bjennings]

I believe that this would explain some of the things that I've been experiencing.  I'm kinda glad to know that it is a bug and not just my stupidity.

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=32422.0

It appears that the certificate is getting reset on a daily basis here too.