pidgin complaining about msn ssl certificate

[Shaya Potter]

Binary package hint: pidgin

tried to log into msn today with pidgin, got this dialog

Accept certificate for contacts.msn.com?

The root certificate this one claims to be issued by is unknown to Pidgin.

[view certificate...] [Reject] [Accept]

unsure what to do.

thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal fglrx
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686

[Alessio "Spinus" Moscatello (spinus)]

Confirmed even in Pidgin 2.5.3-0ubuntu2
Related ticket: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8175

[Richard Seguin (sectech)]

You can safely click [Accept]. I got this message too when I logged on this morning. As there isn't anything more an Ubuntu developer can do about this, and since this bug has already been reported upstream I am marking this report as triaged.

Thanks,

Richard Seguin

[Christian Keil (c-keil)]

I just experienced the same issue. Interestingly it went away after I retried to connect...

Perhaps this has something to do with an invalid certificate? I just found this on google:
http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=2731

In short, the guy there suggests that some certificate is outdated and installing the current one fixed the problem for him.

$ uname -a
Linux xxx 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:15:32 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Ubuntu 8.10
pidgin version 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Is this still an issue for anyone?

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Works for me for a while now