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Hi Steve,

the new version simply doesn't run. We had a user ask for a certificate with the Java1.6 version of certwizard - obviously done just before the upgrade - and now he can't pick it up, though we figured we might get away with copying the java keystore to his private laptop which he can upgrade to his hearts content (we didn't really try it yet though).

Are you really planning on upgrading all your hostcerts through a web interface ?
I've got ~50 of them lying around, I really don't fancy doing this outside a script.

cheers,
Daniela


On 20 March 2013 16:26, Stephen Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi Daniela,

I'm specifically interested in whether this problem might impact the delivery of
host certificates without email addresses. I'm in the midst of a "mini-project"
to try out (and document) a process for changing all the host certificates
in our cluster. Is your problem likely in any way to affect that, or is it a separate
problem that affects "normal" users?

Cheers,

Steve



On 03/20/2013 03:25 PM, Daniela Bauer wrote:
Ummm... no.
Remember we don't run Windows and users don't really have the root password to their machines either ?
If we just dump it in our local repo, it can (or may not who knows) cause all kinds of side effects on stuff that actually *has* to work.
It's certainly on the to do list, but I wouldn't call a cluster wide upgrade "a few clicks".

Cheers,
Daniela


On 20 March 2013 15:19, John Kewley <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

    L

    The bugs meant that some users couldn’t run the tool at all and I
    had heard there were some security issues with 1.6 so it is
    probably a good plan to upgrade with 1.8 coming along this summer
    as well.

    Hopefully it is only a few key-clicks worth of inconvenience

    Cheers

    JK

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    <mailto:[log in to unmask]AC.UK>] *On Behalf Of *Daniela Bauer
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    *Subject:* Re: CertWizard + Java


    We noticed.
    Inconveniences is putting it mildly.

    Cheers,
    Daniela


    On 20 March 2013 15:01, John Kewley <[log in to unmask]
    <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

    I thought you should know that we have recently released a new
    version of CertWizard which has fixed some bugs.

    The impact of this is that the Java libraries we were previously
    using had known issues which they couldn’t fix

    (for complicated backwards-compatible reasons) and therefore to
    get the new interface which fixed them

    we had to move to having minimum Java 1.7 on your systems

    This means that those of you who only have Java 1.6 installed may
    have issues when trying to run CW. The

    solution is to upgrade to Java 1.7

    Cheers and sorry for any inconvenience this may cause

    JK

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