652041 - Mozilla refuses to allow user to add security exception for Error code: sec_error_reused_issuer_and_serial

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 447847

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mitch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16

Mozilla 3 apparently unilaterally decides that certain security issues relating to SSL certificates cannot be manually bypassed by the user.  This needs to be corrected.  

I was configuring an iLO port on a server bound to a local IP network.  When I put the server on a public IP and tried to connect to the iLo port, I got this error:

Secure Connection Failed
        
An error occurred during a connection to [redacted].

You have received an invalid certificate.  Please contact the server administrator or email correspondent and give them the following information:

Your certificate contains the same serial number as another certificate issued by the certificate authority.  Please get a new certificate containing a unique serial number.

(Error code: sec_error_reused_issuer_and_serial)
        
    *   The page you are trying to view can not be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.

    *   Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem. Alternatively, use the command found in the help menu to report this broken site.

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No amount of deleting of any and all server certificates via tools:options:advanced:certificates:...
remedied the situation. 

As a result for all intents and purposes Firefox 3 is totally useless to manage that iLO server port because whoever set this up refused to allow me to specify a security exception.  THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

I was configuring an iLO port on a server bound to a local IP network.  When I put the server on a public IP and tried to connect to the iLo port, I got this error:

Secure Connection Failed
        
An error occurred during a connection to [redacted].

You have received an invalid certificate.  Please contact the server administrator or email correspondent and give them the following information:

Your certificate contains the same serial number as another certificate issued by the certificate authority.  Please get a new certificate containing a unique serial number.

(Error code: sec_error_reused_issuer_and_serial)
        
    *   The page you are trying to view can not be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.

    *   Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem. Alternatively, use the command found in the help menu to report this broken site.

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No amount of deleting of any and all server certificates via tools:options:advanced:certificates:...
remedied the situation. 

As a result for all intents and purposes Firefox 3 is totally useless to manage that iLO server port because whoever set this up refused to allow me to specify a security exception.  THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Removing your cert8.db file as described in http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Could%20not%20initialize%20the%20browser%20security%20component#w_corrupted-file will allow you to access the server.