Built ssl-enabled fossil, then:

<pre>
lap: ./fossil clone ../f.ssl.repo
                Bytes      Cards  Artifacts     Deltas
Send:              49          1          0          0
password for ron:
Received:          20          1          0          0
Send:             619         24          0          0
1Server Error: login failed
./fossil: server says: login failed
</pre>

(obviously, I entered in the correct password...)

I pushed check-in to the main
server using HTTPS in a build of that same version.  So whatever the problem
was, it seems to be resolved now.

sorry; I synced to version adn did a clean compile.

Then:
<verbatim>
lap: ./fossil clone ../f.ssl
                Bytes      Cards  Artifacts     Deltas
Send:              49          1          0          0

Unknown SSL certificate:

  countryName               = US
  stateOrProvinceName       = North Carolina
  localityName              = Charlotte
  organizationName          =

Issued By:

  countryName               = US
  stateOrProvinceName       = North Carolina
  localityName              = Charlotte
  organizationName          =


Accept certificate a
Received:          20          1          0          0
Send:             619         24          0          0
Server Error: login failed
Received:          20          1          0          0
Send:              43          0          0          0
password for ron:
ERROR.  Server did not reply
Total network traffic: 1052 bytes sent, 314 bytes received
Rebuilding repository meta-data...
0 (0%)...
project-id: (null)
server-id:
admin-user: ron (password is "985b3b")
</verbatim>

And I have a local f.ssl which is bogus.  I am not able to log in with an SSL client, at least not for clone operation