Introduction

This article describes how to workaround any error on SES component due to unauthorized self-signed certificates.

Description

One use case concerns the use of LDAP authentication mechanism with the use of self-signed certificate. During authentication the following message will be raised and the authentication will fail

2018-02-23T10:32:21.993Z - error: uncaughtException: self signed certificate in certificate chain

Implementation

1. Edit the file /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/systran-ses-console.service
2. Add the NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED environment variable as follows:

[Unit]
Description=Systran Enterprise Server Console
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=systran
WorkingDirectory=/opt/systran/apps-node/enterprise-server
Environment="NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0" 
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node ses-console.js
LimitNOFILE=16384
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=1s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
RequiredBy=systran-ses-console.target

3. Then reload & restart the SES Console

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart systran-ses-console.service