spacewalk-clone-by-date returns ssl.CertificateError

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Environment

SUSE Manager 3.2

Situation

While running the below command with respective options on SUMA server, it fails with the error message:

spacewalk-clone-by-date

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-clone-by-date", line 429, in <module>
sys.exit(abs(main() or 0))
File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-clone-by-date", line 419, in main
return cloneByDate.main(args)
File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 122, in main
xmlrpc = RemoteApi(options.server, options.username, options.password)
File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 852, in __init__
self.__login()
File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 865, in __login
self.auth_token = self.client.auth.login(self.username, self.password)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1243, in __call__
return self.__send(self.__name, args)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1602, in __request
verbose=self.__verbose
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1283, in request
return self.single_request(host, handler, request_body, verbose)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1311, in single_request
self.send_content(h, request_body)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1459, in send_content
connection.endheaders(request_body)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1078, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 894, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 856, in send
self.connect()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1303, in connect
server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ssl.py", line 369, in wrap_socket
_context=self)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ssl.py", line 617, in __init__
self.do_handshake()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ssl.py", line 854, in do_handshake
match_hostname(self.getpeercert(), self.server_hostname)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ssl.py", line 292, in match_hostname
% (hostname, dnsnames[0]))
ssl.CertificateError: hostname 'server' doesn't match 'server.suse.com'

Resolution

The mass-PTF for the issue can be found below for respective architecture.

mass-PTF for x86_64:
https://ptf.suse.com/f2cf38b50ed714a8409693060195b235/susemanager-3.2/19925/x86_64/20200715

mass-PTF for ppc64le:
https://ptf.suse.com/f2cf38b50ed714a8409693060195b235/susemanager-3.2/19923/ppc64le/20200715

mass-PTF for s390x:
https://ptf.suse.com/f2cf38b50ed714a8409693060195b235/susemanager-3.2/19926/s390x/20200715

Cause

The problem was found in source code of the command where the socket imports gethostname instead getfqdn.

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