ipa commands fails with "Peer's certificate issuer has been marked as not trusted by the user" error

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Issue

  • ipa comands fails with certificate trust error, how do I fix this issue?
# ipa user-mod najmuddin@EXAMPLE.COM --password
Password: 
Enter Password again to verify: 
ipa: ERROR: cert validation failed for "CN=ipa.example.com,O=EXAMPLE.COM" ((SEC_ERROR_UNTRUSTED_ISSUER) Peer's certificate issuer has been marked as not trusted by the user.)
ipa: ERROR: cannot connect to u'http://ipa.example.com/ipa/xml': [Errno -8172] (SEC_ERROR_UNTRUSTED_ISSUER) Peer's certificate issuer has been marked as not trusted by the user.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise IdM 2.x/3.x

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