On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 08:06:59AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > As near as I can tell, slackware 13.0 doesn't appear to have a cache of > root certificates to download and use. Since there's no trusted > certificate provided for google by slackware, I probably will be replacing > slackware with a better distribution that has these packages either > shipped with it or available for download. That's interesting. I think your observation hits the nail on the head. I found a posting that also suggests that these are missing from slackware 13: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-to-import-use-cacert-ssl-root-certificate-to-use-ssl-with-xchat-irc-client-796559/ On all of the systems that have openssl installed here, there is either a file called "ca-bundle.crt" that contains all (for most values of "all") of the root certificates, or the separate certificates are present. The FAQ at openssl.org states that openssl itself doesn't include the bundle (nor the root certificates); presumably, downstream distributions (other than slackware) bundle these together with the raw openssl package. For example, my Red Hat systems show that file included in their openssl RPM. The ca-bundle file is also included with other software packages, so it's possible it's already on your system somewhere. Here, I saw it included with Adobe Acrobat Reader, curl, apache2, squirrelmail, mutt, and perl. If "locate/updatedb" is running on your system, then "locate ca-bundle" might turn it up. If not, then try the longer/slower find / -type f -a -name "ca-bundle*" I think if you were to google for "ca-bundle.crt", you'd be able to find many references for where to get a recent copy. Among other things, you could grab an RPM or DEB package from fedora or deb/untu, and manually extract it. I suspect, however, that the bundle file has been deprecated in favor of individual certificate files over the last few years; since I don't recall any changes to the root certificate holders recently, the older bundle file should suffice, I would guess. As far as distributions go, slackware in general is among the most stable (this post is being typed on a slackware system installed December 1994). Depending on what attribute(s) are most important to you, I wouldn't quite abandon it yet. That said, there are slackware offshoots that take the basic slackware and add user-friendly bits (for some values of "user", and other values of "friendly"), similar to ubuntu being an offshoot of debian. -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list