[Bug 640018] [NEW] empathy throws untrusted certificate warning on google chat services using google apps (non-google domains)

[David J. Lennon]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: empathy

On Ubuntu 10.10, Empathy will throw an 'untrusted certificate, proceed?'
warning during log-on for the Google Chat service when the user is using
Google Apps and not a standard gmail.com / googlemail.com / google.com
email address.

As an example, my Google Chat address uses Google Apps (google services
through personally owned domains) and is david at justsomeboy.com, and
empathy expects the certificate hostname to match the 'justsomeboy.com'
domain and not the google domain.

The error thrown is:

This connection is untrusted. Would you like to continue anyway?

The identity provided by the chat server cannot be verified. The
hostname verified by the certificate doesn't match the server name.

Expected hostname: justsomeboy.com
Certificate hostname: talk.google.com

This is a recent change, earlier Maverick builds didn't throw this
message. As there is no way on the Google Apps service to include
certificates, this trusting check potentially should be disabled for the
Google Chat service.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: empathy 2.31.92-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-21.31-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-21-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 15 23:38:14 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy

** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick

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empathy throws untrusted certificate warning on google chat services using google apps (non-google domains)
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