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title: RHEL 5 SSL Expired link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/rhel-5-ssl-expired/ author: phil2nc description: post_id: 6281 created: 2013/08/27 11:04:59 created_gmt: 2013/08/27 15:04:59 comment_status: closed post_name: rhel-5-ssl-expired status: publish post_type: post

RHEL 5 SSL Expired

Anyone running RHEL 5.4 and earlier is probably going to experience the dreaded "The certificate is expired" error when running rhn_register, up2date or yum. Clearly the answer is... Update the certificate. That 5.4 or earlier SSL CA cert used by Red Hat Network expired on 12 August 2013. For those with a paid Red Hat subscription, see this solution. Another variation appears here. We stumbled on this when trying to register a bunch of older 5.x machines with the Red Hat Network. The solution is basically to download the appropriate rpms and run "rpm -Uvh" to upgrade with the new certificates. The required packages include: rhn-setup-gnome rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup The articles cited above provide options to force a yum update of these packages by temporarily disabling SSL and then running rhn_register and a "yum update "rhn\*". I won't repeat the details here because anyone running RHEL should have a subscription allowing them access to those articles. Note: To temporarily shut off SSL for rhn_register/up2date edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date and change the serverURL from https to http.