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  • Re-examine self-signed certificate generation

    From Deucе@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Tuesday, March 04, 2025 09:40:34
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/881

    In general, it seems that any time I hear about self-signed certificates, it's because they got generated and clobbered what the SysOp actually wanted. I can think of a few options...

    1. Have a configuration option to allow it. This option could be set in the default configs and documented to be disabled when "something else" is used.
    2. Remove it and have a script that can generated one on demand, document its use and disable TLS/SSH by default.

    The reading of the current cert would then need a retry/backoff mechanism of some sort and useful error messages.

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Saturday, March 08, 2025 20:31:36
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/881#note_6751

    Yeah, I was thinking of just adding the option to create self-signed and have it default to off/false.

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Saturday, March 08, 2025 20:32:20
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/881#note_6751

    Yeah, I was thinking of just adding the option to create self-signed and have it default to off/false.
    So if/when any of my sbbs instances can't read the key or cert, they don't go over-writing it again

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Saturday, March 08, 2025 20:36:58
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/881#note_6752


    e.g. right around the line added in commit 84278e60ba254d366179b773a6f2101

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Saturday, March 08, 2025 20:37:43
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/881#note_6752


    e.g. right around the line added in commit 2adf8468d63418b04cef9

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  • From Deucе@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sunday, March 09, 2025 06:55:19
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/881#note_6758

    Closing. We have option 1 with backoff now.

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  • From Deucе@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Sunday, March 09, 2025 06:55:20
    close https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/881

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