Re: [389-users] storing x509 certificates in the directory

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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:44:23PM -0600, Rich Megginson wrote:
> Luke Schierer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been using fedora directory server/389 directory server for a
> > couple years now with out any real issues, so I want to start off by
> > thanking all of the developers for the hours they put into making it
> > available to us.
> >
> > Lately I have had the need to look at storeing x509 certificates in my
> > LDAP directory, to make them available to an application we use.
> > Looking at the documentation available on the website, it appears that
> > the usercertificate attribute either used to be a binary attribute, or
> > that there is a way to make it a binary attribute that I am not
> > seeing.
> >   
> It is and always has been a binary attribute.  What documentation on the 
> website leads you to think otherwise?  We need to fix it.
> > If the former, that it was but is no longer a binary attribute, it
> > appears to me that the 389-console cannot handle the PEM formatted
> > certificates, once one is added, I can no longer select that attribute
> > to manipulate either it, or the certificate it contains.
> >   
> Sounds like a bug.
> > If the latter, that it can be changed to be binary, I would greatly
> > appreciate a pointer on how to do so.
> >
> > Hopefully someone who has worked with certificates in 389-ds can give
> > me some pointers either way, so that I can either submit a bug report,
> > or find the right docs to be reading. Any help would be greatly
> > appreciated.

The docs do say that it is a binary attribute, but they say that in
the 389-console that it should have a button to select the file to
upload.  Instead, it has a text box.  That is what confuses me.
Should I put the filename in that text box?

Thanks!!

Luke


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