Re: mod_ssl Client authentication question

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* Brian Mearns <bmearns@xxxxxxxx> [2009-01-16 14:40]:
> First, if I use SSLRequire to check various fields in a client's
> certificate, is it implied that the certificate has already been
> verified as signed by one of the CA's I've defined in
> SSLCACertificateFile, for instance? In other words, this isn't just
> checking that someone made a certificate with the correct DN values,
> right? It's also verifying implicitly that it comes from an approved
> CA? I assume the same is true if I use FakeBasicAuth?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslcacertificatefile

probably also if interest:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslverifyclient
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslrequiressl
etc.

cheers,
-peter

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