[OpenIndiana-discuss] VIM and HP cert

Michelle michelle at msknight.com
Wed Mar 29 22:39:20 UTC 2023


The certificate part of the question has been solved.

Apparently when clicking "remove certificate" it pops up further notice
that it will not only remove the certificate, but it will generate a
new one automatically and reset iLO. 

Bingo. Another 5 years certificate.

Michelle.

On Wed, 2023-03-29 at 22:12 +0100, Michelle wrote:
> I just bought myself a new (to me) HP Gen 10 Plus and put OI-Hipster-
> minimal-20221123 on it.
> 
> On using crontab -e I get...
> E1187: Failed to source defaults.vim
> 
> A lot of conversations on the web say this is a bug in a certain
> build
> and that it was fixed last year. I was wondering if it's just got to
> make its way into OI at some point, or perhaps I should just update
> the
> system? Or possibly if another editor is installed that would be
> easier
> than VI commands :-)
> 
> Thought I'd ask people's thoughts before I do anything.
> 
> Also, this server has iLO 5 but the default self cert on the server
> only lasts five years. While I've used certs with proper trust
> chains,
> the one for this would need to be self-signed, but I'm presuming I'm
> going to have to put some form of cert trust in first... I'm checking
> with people first because if I get this wrong I could seriously bork
> iLO and stuff myself up something chronic.
> 
> ... or is there a way to SSH to iLO and get it to generate its own
> certificate for 20 years or something.
> 
> Self signed certs can be a whole world of pain if I get it wrong.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any thoughts and advice.
> 
> Michelle.
> 
> 
> 
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