This root certificate is not trusted

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This root certificate is not trusted

I don't know much about certificates but one of them on a Snow Leopard Server just expired and I'm trying to replace it. It was self-signed at "birth" with the Mac mini server it came on.

I have gone through the motions, as mentioned in Server Security Config, to create a new self-signed certificate and it seems to be working but when you click on it in Server Admin it says in big red letters:

This root certificate is not trusted

Whereas the expired one old expired one says:

This certificate has custom trust settings

How can I "trust" the new certificate?

Posted on Jan 6, 2012 12:20 PM

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Strontium90

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Jan 6, 2012 1:48 PM in response to Demetrios

Use Keychain Access (found in /Applications/Utilities) to set an explicit trust.

1: Open Keychain Access

2: Click on the System keychain in the list of keychains on the left

3: In the list on the right, find the certificate for the server and select it

4: Press the i (get info) button

5: Reveal the Trust arrow and change the "When using this certificate" to Always Trust

Or, go to GoDaddy and get a real cert 🙂

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