Re: deskutils/nextcloudclient Cannot connect securely to

From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo_at_nethead.se>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:11:01 UTC
On 10/25/21 16:22, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> On 10/25/21 09:51, Guido Falsi wrote:
>> On 25/10/21 08:14, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>>> FreeBSD 12-STABLE from Oct 15
>>> nextcloudclient 3.3.5
>>>
>>> I get popup messages from the client stating "Untrusted Certificate 
>>> Cannot connect securely to [server-name]".
>>>
>>> Browser access to the server is fine, no errors.
>>>
>>> Using truss, it seems it looks for and finds
>>> fstatat(AT_FDCWD,"/etc/ssl/certs//2e5ac55d.0",{ mode=-r--r--r-- 
>>> ,inode=192371,size=4665,blksize=5120 },0x0) = 0 (0x0)
>>> open("/etc/ssl/certs//2e5ac55d.0",O_RDONLY,0666) = 106535 (0x1a027)
>>>
>>> But 2e5ac55d.0 (DST_Root_CA_X3.pem) has expired.
>>>
>>> It also looks for 8d33f237.0, but it does not exist:
>>> fstatat(AT_FDCWD,"/etc/ssl/certs//8d33f237.0",0x7fffdf5f70a0,0x0) 
>>> ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
>>>
>>> How do I convince it to instead look for 4042bcee.0 which is the 
>>> ISRG_Root_X1.pem used by Letsencrypt?
>>
>> Ref: 
>> https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-root-ca-x3-expiration-september-2021/
>>
>> What version of openssl are you using? versions before 1.1.0 show this 
>> behavior.
>>
>> Maybe a possible workaround is to manually remove the expired 
>> certificate from the list of trusted ones.
>>
>> I guess you are using the ones installed by security/ca_root_nss, in 
>> which case you'll need to modify their list.
>>
> 
> Deleting the link /etc/ssl/certs did the trick it see,s, no more popups 
> since an hour.
> 
> Still wondering why this happens though...
> 

As a final note, I just updated my laptop to latest 12-STABLE and 
nextcloudclient 3.3.5 and no problem with certificates. So the reason 
remains unknown but at least everything works as expected.

Per