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Re: El Capitan / SSL / Safari - failure to connect

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On Sep 19, 2015, Alan Baker wrote
(in article <mtk9pk$ba4$1@news.datemas.de>):

> On 9/19/15, 10:21 AM, me wrote:
> > On 2015-09-19 07:25:31 +0000, Andreas Rutishauser said:
> > 
> > > Salut me
> > > 
> > > In article <d644i6FenkdU1@mid.individual.net>,
> > > me <tglance@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I'm doing OK with El Capitan - testing on a separate partition but
> > > > using all my stuff.
> > > > 
> > > > But I am losing my mind with one issue. I can not load SSL sites
> > > > (https) in Safari. They're fine in other browsers.
> > > > 
> > > > Safari Can't Open the Page
> > > > Safari can't open the page "https://facebook.com" because Safari can't
> > > > establish a secure connection to the server "facebook.com".
> > > 
> > > you might find some hints here (otherwise there are many more, it is not
> > > an El Capitan specific problem):
> > > <http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/53562/safari-cant-connect-to-ht
> > > tps>
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > Andreas
> > 
> > "Hints" was right. None worked. And then I realized they were all for
> > stuff relating to a particular user. I had failed to mention in my OP
> > that my issue appeared no matter what user I tried. So then it hit me
> > like a ton of bricks that I could try at the root level. I was excited
> > so swung a huge bat and deleted any pref file related to security in
> > /private/var/root/Library/Preferences as well as /Library/Preferences. I
> > have no idea which was the culprit but all is well now.
> > 
> > Thanks to all who read/considered/replied!
> Could you possibly list what you deleted?

I went nuclear and deleted all com.apple.secrity.* files that were in 
/Library/Preferences

com.apple.security-common.plist com.apple.security.appsandbox.plist 
com.apple.security.plist com.apple.security.systemidentities.plist

I had already deleted all com.apple.secrity.* in ~/Library/Preferences which 
didn’t work.

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El Capitan / SSL / Safari - failure to connect me <tglance@austin.rr.com> - 2015-09-18 22:53 -0500
  Re: El Capitan / SSL / Safari - failure to connect JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-19 01:22 -0400
  Re: El Capitan / SSL / Safari - failure to connect Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2015-09-19 09:25 +0200
    Re: El Capitan / SSL / Safari - failure to connect me <tglance@austin.rr.com> - 2015-09-19 12:21 -0500
      Re: El Capitan / SSL / Safari - failure to connect Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-09-19 11:33 -0700
        Re: El Capitan / SSL / Safari - failure to connect Tim Lance <not@here.com> - 2015-09-20 13:11 -0500
  Re: El Capitan / SSL / Safari - failure to connect Andred <grossoa48@gmail.com> - 2015-10-01 07:24 -0700
    Re: El Capitan / SSL / Safari - failure to connect Tim Lance <not@here.com> - 2015-10-01 18:17 -0500
      Re: El Capitan / SSL / Safari - failure to connect Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-02 00:43 +0000
        Re: El Capitan / SSL / Safari - failure to connect Tim Lance <not@here.com> - 2015-10-02 08:04 -0500

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