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Poor certificate how-to wording costs several days of problems

Bug #575859 reported by Christopher Nighswonger
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ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
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Adam Sommer
Ubuntu lucid-updates

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs

Here: https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/certificates-and-security.html#certificate-authority

Step 7 presently states:

"There should now be a new file, /etc/ssl/newcerts/01.pem, containing the same output. Copy and paste everything between the -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and ----END CERTIFICATE----- lines to a file named after the hostname of the server where the certificate will be installed."

This mistakenly implies that the lines "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and ----END CERTIFICATE-----" should be omitted from the resulting crt file. This is *incorrect* and has cost over 16 hours of wasted time.

The section should read as follows:

"There should now be a new file, /etc/ssl/newcerts/01.pem, containing the same output. Copy and paste everything beginning with the line: -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and continuing through the line: ----END CERTIFICATE----- lines to a file named after the hostname of the server where the certificate will be installed."

Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini)
Changed in ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Adam Sommer (asommer) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. I have added your suggestion to revision 512 in the Maverick branch and revision 510 in the Lucid branch.

Changed in ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
assignee: nobody → Adam Sommer (asommer)
milestone: none → lucid-updates
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-docs - 10.10.1

---------------
ubuntu-docs (10.10.1) maverick; urgency=low

  * First release for maverick
  * General:
    - Update copyright year, LP: #580396
    - Update version numbers for maverick, LP: #587119
    - Update pot files
  * Administrative:
    - Users and Groups app UI changed - adjusted directions,
      LP: #570429 (Connor Imes)
  * Basic-commands:
    - Removed incorrect comment about using ~ with sudo,
      LP: #570423 (Connor Imes)
  * Internet:
    - Add section on Ubuntu One, authored by Matt Griffin with
      some changes/review
    - Typos: Cicso -> Cisco. Alex Wardle, LP: #561084
  * Musicvideophotos:
    - Add material on using Ubuntu One Music Store and
      other Music Stores
      within Rhythmbox, content submitted by Matt Griffin
    - Update microphone troubleshooting, LP: #591164
  * Serverguide:
    - Removed erroneous text from vmbuilder command,
      LP: #559190
    - Typo in network-config section. Alex Wardle, LP: #550892
    - Fix typo in Kerberos section. David C. Curtis, LP: #561788
    - Replaced dkim-filter with opendkim, feedback from
      Scott Kitterman. LP: #561825
    - Changed ldapsearch command in ACL section for new authentication
      mechanism. LP: #333733
    - Adjusted certificate wording to be more concise about which
      lines to copy. LP: #575859
    - Changed samba restart command to use new upstart scripts.
      LP: #575540
    - New information about granting groups Admin rights for Samba.
      LP: #579851
    - Various typos and English fixes from Travis Nichol, Connor Imes,
      Vikram Dhillon, Dean Sas, Andrew Rowell. LP: #594913,
      LP: #572959, LP: #603947
    - New Amavisd-new and Spamassassin section which adds note about possible
      large amount of error messages sent to email. LP: #165184 (Adam Sommer)
    - Removed OpenNebula section (Adam Sommer)
    - Removed eBox section (Adam Sommer)
    - Reviewed and updated User Management and Console Security sections
      (Adam Sommer)
    - Fixed spelling typo of dyngroup.schema, fixed ldapscripts <ask> example
      explanation, and ldapscripts example template path. LP: #595001
      (Adam Sommer)
    - Updates to UEC sections (Adam Sommer)
    - New "First Boot" section covering clout-init functionality (Adam Sommer)
    - Fix broken links to installation-guide, add distro-rev-short
      entity, LP: #575961
  * Windows:
    - Change wording of windows/C/preparing.xml, LP: #483153
 -- Matthew East <email address hidden> Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:35:52 +0100

Changed in ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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