Teams not connecting with ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

Daniel 116 Reputation points
2020-01-22T07:56:06.547+00:00

Hi,

I'm using the Teams Client for Linux on a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS behind a corporate proxy.

This is what I get, when trying to login:

desktop-987c88d0-fece-4708-bd29-f87333f90db9
Error code - -202 ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
Failed to load: https://

I guess that this has something to do with the redirect to the corporate login page and the certificate that is used there. Any idea how to check the cert store of the teams client? Or how to fix this behaviour?

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Daniel

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  1. Daniel 116 Reputation points
    2020-01-24T06:36:17.6+00:00

    Finally I got it running with adding our root CA cert with certutil

    certutil -A -n "ROOT-CA" -t "TCu,Cu,Tu" -i /usr/share/ca-certificates/ROOT-CA.crt -d sql:/home/${USER}/.pki/nssdb

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  1. JimmyYang-MSFT 48,121 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2020-01-22T10:51:52.35+00:00

    Hi Daniel!
    Does anyone else have the same issue?
    In my experience, Teams for Linux client don't need to install certificate. In our test environment(Ubuntu 18.04), we installed the Teams for Linux and didn't install certificate. It works well. So we think this issue may related to corporate proxy certificate. We recommend you check if your corporate certificate is trusted or expired. For more details about this issue, you can refer to:
    https://www.guildcafe.com/fix-net-err_cert_authority_invalid-error.html


  2. Juhász István 1 Reputation point
    2020-11-23T10:30:29.337+00:00

    Hi,

    I'm working on a linux (ubuntu) machine. I have the exact same problem.

    I've already tried the followings:
    -We have MITM decrypt for https, so internal ca have been added to the cert store of the system.
    -With wget I checked that the url from the log works well.

    Error log of Teams:
    Mon Nov 23 2020 11:24:56 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time) <7906> -- event -- name: desktop_navigation_provisional_load_failed, errorCode: -202, errorUrl: https://teams.microsoft.com, message: ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID, vdiMode: 0, eventpdclevel: 3,
    Mon Nov 23 2020 11:24:56 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time) <7906> -- error -- Page failed to load with error code -202: ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID: https://teams.microsoft.com
    Mon Nov 23 2020 11:24:56 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time) <7906> -- warning -- Page failed to load with unhandled error code -202: ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID: https://teams.microsoft.com

    Wget output:
    juhaszis@DSOL-0012N:~$ wget -d https://teams.microsoft.com
    DEBUG output created by Wget 1.20.3 on linux-gnu.

    Reading HSTS entries from /home/juhaszis/.wget-hsts
    URI encoding = ‘UTF-8’
    Converted file name 'index.html' (UTF-8) -> 'index.html' (UTF-8)
    --2020-11-23 11:26:29-- https://teams.microsoft.com/
    Resolving teams.microsoft.com (teams.microsoft.com)... 52.113.194.132, 2620:1ec:42::132
    Caching teams.microsoft.com => 52.113.194.132 2620:1ec:42::132
    Connecting to teams.microsoft.com (teams.microsoft.com)|52.113.194.132|:443... connected.
    Created socket 3.
    Releasing 0x000055b94eb4f6f0 (new refcount 1).
    Initiating SSL handshake.
    Handshake successful; connected socket 3 to SSL handle 0x000055b94eb4f820
    certificate:
    subject: CN=teams.microsoft.com
    issuer: CN=NL_InternalCA,O=Netlock Kft.,L=Budapest,ST=Budapest,C=hu
    X509 certificate successfully verified and matches host teams.microsoft.com

    ---request begin---
    GET / HTTP/1.1

    Does teams use same internal cert store instead of the OS store on linux?
    Do you have some workaround?

    István

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