we could not verify the certificate: reason = untrusted

[georgezugg]

One of my machines gets this error "we could not verify the certificate: reason = untrusted" when I try and open the gui to login.

[johnpoz]

@georgezugg what cert are you using on the web gui? By default it uses a shelf signed cert, and browsers going to balk at such a cert and give you a warning.

Are you using your own cert you created from a CA, an acme cert?

With self signed, you can tell the browser to connect anyway. If some cert you created with CA, you can have the browser trust all certs signed by that CA. If a acme (lets encrypt) cert then browser should auto trust it.

[georgezugg]

@johnpoz I never set a cert from day one as far as I know

[johnpoz]

@georgezugg well default, out of the box pfsense would create a self signed cert.

I use cert I created with CA I created on pfsense - using the very creative name of webgui, signed by the also very creative CA name of Home-CA ;)

You should see a webconfigurator cert in pfsense cert manager - and in the drop down box where you set what cert to use.

So what cert is your webgui set to use?

[georgezugg]

@johnpoz

here is a screen shot of what i have

[rcoleman-netgate]

@georgezugg Self-signed certificates always throw errors in web browsers.

[georgezugg]

@rcoleman-netgate dumb question but do we have a documented process to createa nd add a created one?

[rcoleman-netgate]

@georgezugg

Check out https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/certificates/index.html

[georgezugg]

@rcoleman-netgate thanks