cURL not working (Error #77) for SSL connections on CentOS for non-root users

Question 1

Turns out that the problem was with face that the script was running from a cPanel "email piped to script", so was running as the user, so is was a user problem, but was not affecting the web server at all.

The cause for the user not being able to access the /etc/pki directory was due to them only having jailed ssh access. Once I granted full access, it all worked fine.

Thanks for the info though, Remi.

Question 2

I just had a similar problem with Error#77 on CentOS7. I was missing the softlink /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt that is installed with the ca-certificates RPM.

'curl' was attempting to open this path to get the Certificate Authorities. I discovered with:

strace curl https://example.com

and saw clearly that the open failed on that link.

My fix was:

yum reinstall ca-certificates

That should setup everything again. If you have private CAs for Corporate or self-signed use make sure they are in /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors so that they are re-added.

Question 3

If you recently reached here as I did when searching for the same error in vain you may find it to be an update to NSS causing failure on CentOS. Test by running yum update and see if you get errors, curl also creates this error. Solution is simple enough just install NSS manually.

Read on...

If you're like me it threw up an error similar to this:

curl: (77) Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?)

This took some time to solve but found that it wasn't the CA cert because by recreating them and checking all the configuration I had ruled it out. It could have been libcurl so I went in search of updates.

As mentioned I recreated CA certs. You can do this also but it may be a waste of time. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Https

The next step (probably should of been my first) was to check that everything was up-to-date by simply running yum.

$ yum update
$ yum upgrade

This gave me an affirmative answer that there was a bigger problem at play: Downloading Packages: error: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID c105b9de: BAD Problem opening package nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3–19.el6_6.x86_64.rpm I started reading about Certificate Verification with NSS and how this new update may be related to my problems. So yum is broken. This is because nss-softokn-* needs nss-softokn-freebl-* need each other to function. The problem is they don't check each others version for compatibility and in some cases it ends up breaking yum. Lets go fix things:

$ wget http://mirrors.linode.com/centos/6.6/updates/x86_64/Packages/nsssoftokn-freebl-3.14.3-19.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
$ rpm -Uvh nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3–19.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
$ yum update

You should of course download from your nearest mirror and check for the correct version / OS etc. We basically download and install the update from the rpm to fix yum. As @grumpysysadmin pointed out you can shorten the commands down. @cwgtex contributed that you should install the upgrade using the RPM command making the process even simplier.

To fix things with wordpress you need to restart your http server.

$ service httpd restart

Try again and success!

Question 4

For Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates

Hit this problem trying to curl things as ROOT inside of Dockerfile

Question 5

I had the same issue on CentOS-7. It's worked good on me.

Creating empty file.

touch /etc/sysconfig/64bit_strstr_via_64bit_strstr_sse2_unaligned

There was a curl bug in the distribution image of CentOS-7.

https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16282

Question 6

Check that you have the correct rights set on CA certificates bundle. Usually, that means read access for everyone to CA files in the /etc/ssl/certs directory, for instance /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt.

You can see what files have been configured for you curl version with the

curl-config --configure

command :

$ curl-config --configure
 '--prefix=/usr' 
 '--mandir=/usr/share/man' 
 '--disable-dependency-tracking' 
 '--disable-ldap' 
 '--disable-ldaps' 
 '--enable-ipv6' 
 '--enable-manual' 
 '--enable-versioned-symbols' 
 '--enable-threaded-resolver' 
 '--without-libidn' 
 '--with-random=/dev/urandom' 
 '--with-ca-bundle=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt' 
 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro' 
 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'

Here you need read access to /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

$ curl-config --configure
 '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' 
 '--prefix=/usr' 
 '--mandir=/usr/share/man' 
 '--disable-dependency-tracking' 
 '--enable-ipv6' 
 '--with-lber-lib=lber' 
 '--enable-manual' 
 '--enable-versioned-symbols' 
 '--with-gssapi=/usr' 
 '--with-ca-path=/etc/ssl/certs' 
 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 
 'CFLAGS=-g -O2' 
 'LDFLAGS=' 
 'CPPFLAGS='

And the same here.

Question 7

I had faced same issue whenever I tried executing curl on my https server.

About to connect() to localhost port 443 (#0)
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost (::1) port 443 (#0)
Initializing NSS with certpath: sql:/etc/pki/nssdb

Observed this issue when I configured keystore path incorrectly. After correcting keystore path it worked.

Question 8

The error is due to corrupt or missing SSL chain certificate files in the PKI directory. You’ll need to make sure the files ca-bundle, following steps: In your console/terminal:

mkdir /usr/src/ca-certificates && cd /usr/src/ca-certificates

Enter this site: https://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ca-certificates , get your ca-certificate, for yout SO, for example: ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/updates/24/x86_64/c/ca-certificates-2016.2.8-1.0.fc24.noarch.rpm << CentOS. Copy url of download and paste in url: wget your_url_donwload_ca-ceritificated.rpm now, install yout rpm:

rpm2cpio your_url_donwload_ca-ceritificated.rpm | cpio -idmv

now restart your service: my example this command:

sudo service2 httpd restart

very great good look

Question 9

Please check the permissions on the the ca certificates installed on server.

Question 10

Windows users, add this to PHP.ini:

curl.cainfo = "C:/cacert.pem";

Path needs to be changed to your own and you can download cacert.pem from a google search

(yes I know its a CentOS question)

cURL not working (Error #77) for SSL connections on CentOS for non-root users

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