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empathy package

checkbox for untrustworthy certificates doesn't take effect

Bug #821619 reported by Thorsten on 2011-08-05

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #706931: repeated asking to verify a certificate. enough already, I already approved it!!. Edit Remove

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	empathy (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

empathy shows a warning for servers with a self-signed certificate. There's a checkbox remember the user's decission which doesn't seem to have any effect. After every reconnect it shows up again.

This problem occurs on all ubuntu system I know (also on maverick meerkat and lucid lynx).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 5 20:10:49 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=de_DE:en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Thorsten (thorsten-by) wrote on 2011-08-05:

Screenshot of the german warning message Edit (31.1 KiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (7.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) on 2011-09-01

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Li Li (lli5) wrote on 2011-09-23:

It's boring to show the dialog again and again. I'm using the latest Oneiric.

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Li Li (lli5) wrote on 2011-09-30:

Confirmed this has been fixed Since Sep 30, 2011 (empathy 3.2.0-0ubuntu1) in Oneiric.

Robert Roth (evfool) on 2011-10-29

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2011-10-29:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #706931, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.