Hi! I managed to find the cause in my case, the debug window helped a lot. The certificate of nexus.passport.com has changed. nexus.passport.com sends its certificate to Pidgin during the logon process. Pidgin caches these certificates under ~/.purple/certificates/x509/tls_peers/ and compares them with the one recieved from the server. The certificate changed, it did not match with the cached one, so Pidgin dropped the whole logon process and gave a bit missleading message.
Solution: delete the cached certificates, sit back and have a beer. :) Marton Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><T: +36 30 384-8140> Pannon Egyetem - Kommunikációs és Informatikai Igazgatóság Informatikai Iroda 8200 Veszprém, Egyetem u. 10. Luiz Pimenta wrote: > Subject: Pidgin won't connect to MSN network since yesterday > Date: Tue Jul 1 05:59:35 EDT 2008 > > >> Hi! >> >> I'm having trouble to connect to the MSN network using Pidgin 2.3.1. I >> had no problem before yesterday. Since then I did not update anything, >> did nothing to my system, but Pidgin won't connect. I recieve "Unable to >> connet Unable to authenticate" messages. I can sign on using >> http://mobile.live.com/pocketpc so my msn account should be OK. >> > > Hi, > > Just read that on the list archives: > > http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2008-July/001514.html > > Apparently I have that problem for Pidgin 2.2.2 on FreeBSD 7.0. > > Pidgin can not connect to MSN network, returns error message: > > --- cut > Unable to authenticate: Unable to connect > > Pidgin will not attempt to reconnect the account until you correct the > error and re-enable the account. > --- cut > > I will try to update to 2.4.3 since it worked fine with MSN network on > a Windows XP I have used yesterday. Is there anyone on this list > running Pidgin 2.4.3 on FreeBSD, how did you install, packages or > ports? > > Luiz > > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > [email protected] > http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
