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Oracle Linux: How Can a newly Created OpenSSL Self-Signed Certificate be Provided to Cockpit (Doc ID 2932301.1)

Last updated on MARCH 11, 2023

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 7.0 and later
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

NOTE: In the examples and document that follow, user details, date-time, hostnames, directory paths, filenames etc. represent a fictitious sample (and are used to provide an illustrative example only). Any similarity to actual persons, or entities, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended in any manner.

Cockpit was referring to default "0-self-signed.cert" certificate instead of newly created OpenSSL certificate "<server-name>.crt" as shown below

The following output is captured in /sos_commands/cockpit/ of sosreport

Changes

Using the document Doc ID 2885996.1 as a reference, created a new self-signed OpenSSL Certificate with the required validity period

Cause

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