Description of problem: When trying to do partly kickstart based installation of Fedora from an HTTPS repository, the attempt will fail if the certificate is self-signed (in other words it is not signed by a well-known CA). The user could make the used CA certificate trusted by modifying the global storage of trusted certificates (currently /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt). This could be done in a %pre script, e.g: %pre cat >/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt <<END -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- MIIEKjCCAxKgAwIBAgIQYAGXt0an6rS0mtZLL/eQ+zANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQsFADCB rjELMAkGA1UEBhMCVVMxFTATBgNVBAoTDHRoYXd0ZSwgSW5jLjEoMCYGA1UECxMf Q2VydGlmaWNhdGlvbiBTZXJ2aWNlcyBEaXZpc2lvbjE4MDYGA1UECxMvKGMpIDIw MDggdGhhd3RlLCBJbmMuIC0gRm9yIGF1dGhvcml6ZWQgdXNlIG9ubHkxJDAiBgNV BAMTG3RoYXd0ZSBQcmltYXJ5IFJvb3QgQ0EgLSBHMzAeFw0wODA0MDIwMDAwMDBa Fw0zNzEyMDEyMzU5NTlaMIGuMQswCQYDVQQGEwJVUzEVMBMGA1UEChMMdGhhd3Rl LCBJbmMuMSgwJgYDVQQLEx9DZXJ0aWZpY2F0aW9uIFNlcnZpY2VzIERpdmlzaW9u MTgwNgYDVQQLEy8oYykgMjAwOCB0aGF3dGUsIEluYy4gLSBGb3IgYXV0aG9yaXpl ZCB1c2Ugb25seTEkMCIGA1UEAxMbdGhhd3RlIFByaW1hcnkgUm9vdCBDQSAtIEcz MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAsr8nLPvb2FvdeHsbnndm gcs+vHyu86YnmjSjaDFxODNi5PNxZnmxqWWjpYvVj2AtP0LMqmsywCPLLEHd5N/8 YZzic7IilRFDGF/Eth9XbAoFWCLINkw6fKXRz4aviKdEAhN0cXMKQlkC+BsUa0Lf b1+6a4KinVvnSr0eAXLbS3ToO39/fR8EtCab4LRarEc9VbjXsCZSKAExQGbY2SS9 9irY7CFJXJv2eul/VTV+lmuNk5Mny5K76qxAwJ/C+IDPXfRa3M50hqY+bAtTyr2S zhkGcuYMXDhpxwTWvGzOW/b3aJzcJRVIiKHpqfiYnODz1TEoYRFsZ5aNOZnLwkUk OQIDAQABo0IwQDAPBgNVHRMBAf8EBTADAQH/MA4GA1UdDwEB/wQEAwIBBjAdBgNV HQ4EFgQUrWyqlGCc7eT/+j4KdCtjA/e2Wb8wDQYJKoZIhvcNAQELBQADggEBABpA 2JVlrAmSicY59BDlqQ5mU1143vokkbvnRFHfxhY0Cu9qRFHqKweKA3rD6z8KLFIW oCtDuSWQP3CpMyVtRRooOyfPqsMpQhvfO0zAMzRbQYi/aytlryjvsvXDqmbOe1bu t8jLZ8HJnBoYuMTDSQPxYA5QzUbF83d597YV4Djbxy8ooAw/dyZ02SUS2jHaGh7c KUGRIjxpp7sC8rZcJwOJ9Abqm+RyguOhCcHpABnTPtRwa7pxpqpYrvS76Wy274fM m7v/OeZWYdMKp8RcTGB7BXcmer/YB1IsYvdwY9k5vG8cwnncdimvzsUsZAReiDZu MdRAGmI0Nj81Aa6sY6A= -----END CERTIFICATE----- %end It is of course up to the user to make sure the certificate/kickstart file is obtained from a trusted source. However, in some cases this workaround might not be optimal, ideally the installer could, for example, present a pop-up window asking whether or not to accept the certificate if the CA cert is not well-known (perhaps in the same spirit as Firefox does).
Fixed in anaconda-14.10 and pykickstart-1.76. The fix allows one to specify '--noverifyssl' in the kickstart's repo or method commands.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle. Changing version to '14'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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