Registration failed with the following: There was an SSL error: [('SSL routines', 'SSL23_WRITE', 'ssl handshake failure')]
Issue
- On a newly-installed system,
rhn_registerfails with the following error:
There was an SSL error: [('SSL routines', 'SSL23_WRITE', 'ssl handshake failure')]
A common cause of this error is the system time being incorrect. Verify that the time on this system is correct.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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