Lighthouse Keeper Connection Issues

Posted on the 25/04/2011 at 03:37 PM

Update: It seems the folks over at ENTP have fixed the SSL certificate, you should be ok to revert your settings.

You may be noticing connection issues with Lighthouse Keeper today, with it not downloading updates or letting you edit anything. It seems Lighthouse's SSL certificate has expired. This will likely be fixed some time soon, but in the mean time you probably want to keep using Lighthouse Keeper. Here's a step-by-step guide to getting around the issue.

1. Visit your Lighthouse account in the browser.

2. You should be presented with a dialogue like the one below. Click the "Show Certificate" button

3. In the bottom panel there should be a heading called "Trust" with a disclosure triangle next to it. Click on this

4. There will be 3 pop up buttons appear. Change the one labelled "Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)" to "Always Trust".

5. Click continue. When prompted, enter your keychain password.

You should now be able to use Lighthouse Keeper without any issues as these changes work across the whole of your OS, not just your browser. You may want to change this value back after Lighthouse have fixed it. In order to do that, open Keychain Access, click on the Certificates category on the left, search for a certificate called *.lighthouseapp.com (it should have + next to its icon). Once found click the i button and perform steps 3 and 4 in the window that pops up, except change the pop up back to "no value specified". Close the window, enter your keychain password and everything should be back to normal.





Comments

Good tip, however, I just want to point out that if you do so you should contact Lighthouse and let them verify that the fingerprint in the dialog is correct. Otherwise this mistake of them could potentially be used by an attacker to have you severely compromise information in a man-in-the-middle attack.

Posted by lea on 25/04/2011 at  04:17 PM




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