Bug 273088

Summary:	CA Management issues warning common name not server name
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Casual J. Programmer <casualprogrammer>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Michael Calmer <mc>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Alpha 3plus
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	openSUSE 10.3
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Screenshot of CA message and server settings

Description Casual J. Programmer 2007-05-10 06:53:52 UTC

When setting up a certificate and trying to export it as server certificate a message is issued "Warning the common name of the certificate (workstation6l) is not the name of the server (localhost) etc. etc."

Both interfaces are set up with static ip and hostname. Typing http://workstation6l in Firefox shows the default server page "It works!"

Comment 1 Casual J. Programmer 2007-05-10 06:55:22 UTC

Created attachment 138837 [details]
Screenshot of CA message and server settings

Comment 2 Michael Calmer 2007-05-21 10:35:46 UTC

The common name of the server certificate should contain the FQDN of the server. "workstation6l" seems not be full qualified. We check against
the "hostname" command. It looks like the on your machine the hostname command returns "localhost", which looks wrong. 

Please check your network setup.

But at all this is a "warning", not an "error". And the warning itself is correct. When you know that your value for "common name" is correct you can ignore this warning. 

I set this bug to invalid because it is not a bug. Everything works like expected.

Comment 3 Casual J. Programmer 2007-05-22 07:19:53 UTC

Actually I might have put this forward not precise enough, I didn't think the Warning was the bug, but rather the retrieved hostname was in error.

After a "clean" install from the openSuSE 10.3 alpha4 DVD it seems to retrieve the correct host name.