Re: F-EOL versions of Firefox: How to remove co-opted Diginotar CA?

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On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Daniel B. Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/06/2011 08:08 AM, Pasha R wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Daniel B. Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> For EOL FF versions, how can I remove the co-opted
>>> Diginotar CA certificate? Instructions given by Mozilla
>>> does not remove this certificate.
>>>
>>> If the root CA's cannot be manually removed, Is there
>>> a FF rpm that has the fix?
>> Uneducated guess: try running FF as root and then following
>> instructions by mozilla
> I already explained that the instructions given by Mozilla
> does not work.  You can try to 'delete' DigiNotar per Mozilla's
> instructions, having done that, and going back to check will
> show that it still appears. This root CA is a built-in object...
> so it cannot be deleted.
>
> Since there are no updates for end-of-life fedora versions, one
> may have to backport the ca-certificates packages, since not
> only Firefox is affected but many others such as Seamonkey,
> Thunderbird, and many other applications, as Kevin Fenzi wrote.
>
> Now...  I need to figure out how to do a backport of ca-certificates
> pkg so if anyone has any idea how this can be done, I am all ears...
>
>
Instructions (almost) worked for me - CA is still displayed, but if
you press "Edit trust" button, you will see, that all checkboxes are
unchecked, so it will not be used for anything.
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