Certificate Chain Incomplete
Jun23

Certificate Chain Incomplete

KB ID 0001570 Problem The certificate here at PNL expired over the weekend, I got a new one and installed it. All appeared to be fine until I did an online check to make sure it was OK.  The server’s certificate chain is incomplete Solution I had this problem once before, back then I was using Apache and CentOS7, and things were a little different, (now I’m using NGINX and Ubuntu 18.04). Essentially you see this error...

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Event ID 4107
Nov17

Event ID 4107

KB ID 0000304  Problem Event ID 4107 Failed extract of third-party root list from auto update cab at: <Microsoft URL>with error: A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. There’s a lot of info on this error out there in forums, and 99% of it had nothing to do with my problem. Its basically a certificate error, to get to the...

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Securing Cisco SSL VPN’s with Certificates
Nov17

Securing Cisco SSL VPN’s with Certificates

KB ID 0000335 Problem It’s been a while since I wrote a walk though on the Cisco AnyConnect/SSL VPN solution, and usually I secure these with Active Directory or simply using the local user database on the firewall. But what if you wanted to use certificates instead? Perhaps your users are too “technically challenged” to remember their passwords. Or you want to enable two factor authentication with...

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