Red Hat Certificate System and Firefox web configuration wizard error "Secure Connection Failed" at first attempt
Issue
The Firefox browser fails in the initial SSL handshake of the first bootstrap page of the web based configuration wizard, with the following error:
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to ca1.example.com:8445. Issuer certificate is invalid. (Error code: sec_error_ca_cert_invalid)
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11
with
firefox-31.1.0-6.el5
and Red Hat Certificate System 8.1
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