Red Hat Satellite 5 : Download and execution of bootstrap script fails with "ERROR: cannot verify satellite.example.com’s certificate, issued by “/C=US”: Unable to locally verify the issuer’s authority."

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Issue

  • Below error message is encountered while downloading bootstrap script and registering a client system to Red Hat Satellite 5.6.

    # wget https://satellite.example.com/pub/bootstrap-vims.sh | bash && rhnreg_ks --activationkey 2-13b900faff5a98cf688dcd9496426021 --serverUrl https://satellite.example.com/XMLRPC
--2017-08-04 17:49:25--  https://satellite.example.com/pub/bootstrap-vims.sh
Resolving satellite.example.com... 192.168.0.12
Connecting to satellite.example.com|192.168.0.12|:443... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify satellite.example.com’s certificate, issued by “/C=US”:
Unable to locally verify the issuer’s authority.
To connect to satellite.example.com insecurely, use ‘--no-check-certificate’.
This system is already registered. Use --force to override

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite or Proxy 5.6

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