I am unable to install the webmin repo onto a newly minted ubuntu 20.04 LTS machine:
root@web2:~# cd /root
root@web2:~# wget https://download.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
--2020-12-09 13:47:21-- https://download.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
Resolving download.webmin.com (download.webmin.com)... 104.207.151.13, 108.60.199.109
Connecting to download.webmin.com (download.webmin.com)|104.207.151.13|:443... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify download.webmin.com's certificate, issued by ‘CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US’:
Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
To connect to download.webmin.com insecurely, use --no-check-certificate'.
root@web2:~# apt-key add jcameron-key.asc
gpg: can't open 'jcameron-key.asc': No such file or directory
root@web2:~# wget https://download.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
--2020-12-09 13:48:05-- https://download.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
Resolving download.webmin.com (download.webmin.com)... 104.207.151.13, 108.60.199.109
Connecting to download.webmin.com (download.webmin.com)|104.207.151.13|:443... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify download.webmin.com's certificate, issued by ‘CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US’:
Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
To connect to download.webmin.com insecurely, use
--no-check-certificate'.
root@web2:~# wget https://download.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc --no-check-certificate
--2020-12-09 13:48:29-- https://download.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
Resolving download.webmin.com (download.webmin.com)... 104.207.151.13, 108.60.199.109
Connecting to download.webmin.com (download.webmin.com)|104.207.151.13|:443... connected.
WARNING: cannot verify download.webmin.com's certificate, issued by ‘CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US’:
Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1320 (1.3K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘jcameron-key.asc’
jcameron-key.asc 100%[=========================================================>] 1.29K --.-KB/s in 0s
2020-12-09 13:48:30 (45.4 MB/s) - ‘jcameron-key.asc’ saved [1320/1320]
root@web2:~# apt-key add jcameron-key.asc OK root@web2:~# apt update Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease Ign:5 https://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge InRelease Err:6 https://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge Release Certificate verification failed: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate issuer is unknown. Could not handshake: Error in the certificate verification. [IP: 104.207.151.13 443] Reading package lists... Done E: The repository 'https://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. root@web2:~#
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Submitted by hescominsoon on Wed, 12/09/2020 - 08:00 Pro Licensee Comment #1
as a workaround i used the virt gpl script to install webmin..and that seemed to work..but webmin alone failed as above.
Hi,
Thanks for the heads up. This issue should be fixed now.