Okay, thanks much for that ca-bundle.crt pointer. I have that file in with curl.On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Henry Yen wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list