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Self Signed Certificate Chain Error - Reversion

See original GitHub issue

Description

After desktops auto update this morning i can no loner push, pull or clone via my companies enterprise GitHub server. The below error is thrown

Fatal: unable to access ‘https://github.mycompany.com/myname/myrepo.git/’: SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain.

Changing the http.sslBackend as recommended in an earlier appearance of this issue (https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/2514) between “schannel” and “openssl” changes the error message slightly, but still has the same problem. schannel: CertGetCertificateChain trust error CERT_TRUST_IS_UNTRUSTED_ROOT

Version

GitHub Desktop: 1.2.1

Operating system: Windows 10

Steps to Reproduce

GitHub Enterprise on a closed intranet system.
Update to V1.2.1
Perform Push, Get, or clone

Expected Behavior

Desktop operates as usual

Actual Behavior

Fatal error ‘SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain’ for openssl and ‘CertGetCertificateChain trust error CERT_TRUST_IS_UNTRUSTED_ROOT’ for schannel

Additional Information

This self signed cert issue also exists under command line git with the common googl-able workarounds being hit and miss. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11621768/how-can-i-make-git-accept-a-self-signed-certificate https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39004750/how-to-solve-ssl-certificate-self-signed-certificate-when-cloning-repo-from-git

In accordance with the guidance on https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/4738 Anti virus is an enterprise version managed by IT. as far as i can tell it’s not been changed in the last 3 days.