If a server's SSL certificate is changed after pulp-admin has authenticated to the server, the next time pulp-admin is used it will break in an unfriendly manner. It should instead inform the user that there were SSL issues, and suggest they try authenticating again to get a new certificate.

$ pulp-admin rpm repo list
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                            RPM Repositories
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

An error occurred attempting to contact the server. More information can be
found in the client log file ~/.pulp/admin.log.

$ tail -n 25 ~/.pulp/admin.log 
2013-12-17 15:05:06,181 - ERROR - Client-side exception occurred
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/rbarlow/devel/pulp/client_lib/pulp/client/extensions/core.py", line 478, in run
    exit_code = Cli.run(self, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/okaara/cli.py", line 974, in run
    exit_code = command_or_section.execute(self.prompt, remaining_args)
  File "/home/rbarlow/devel/pulp/client_lib/pulp/client/extensions/extensions.py", line 224, in execute
    return self.method(*arg_list, **clean_kwargs)
  File "/home/rbarlow/devel/pulp/client_lib/pulp/client/commands/repo/cudl.py", line 235, in run
    self.display_repositories(**kwargs)
  File "/home/rbarlow/devel/pulp/client_lib/pulp/client/commands/repo/cudl.py", line 263, in display_repositories
    repo_list = self.get_repositories(query_params, **kwargs)
  File "/home/rbarlow/devel/pulp_rpm/pulp_rpm/src/pulp_rpm/extension/admin/repo_list.py", line 35, in get_repositories
    all_repos = self._all_repos(query_params, **kwargs)
  File "/home/rbarlow/devel/pulp_rpm/pulp_rpm/src/pulp_rpm/extension/admin/repo_list.py", line 83, in _all_repos
    self.all_repos_cache = self.context.server.repo.repositories(query_params).response_body
  File "/home/rbarlow/devel/pulp/bindings/pulp/bindings/repository.py", line 34, in repositories
    return self.server.GET(path, query_parameters)
  File "/home/rbarlow/devel/pulp/bindings/pulp/bindings/server.py", line 96, in GET
    return self._request('GET', path, queries)
  File "/home/rbarlow/devel/pulp/bindings/pulp/bindings/server.py", line 146, in _request
    response_code, response_body = self.server_wrapper.request(method, url, body)
  File "/home/rbarlow/devel/pulp/bindings/pulp/bindings/server.py", line 304, in request
    raise exceptions.ConnectionException(None, str(err), None)
ConnectionException: (None, 'sslv3 alert handshake failure', None)