On 23/02/2018 15:55, Matt Caswell wrote:
On 23/02/18 14:06, etc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello!
Normally I put new certificates into /etc/ssl/certs and create the
hash-link.
That workes for me for many years.
Just found out 2 new things agout that.
1. There is c_hash that does the creation of the hash-link for me.
Great!
2. ca-certificates.crt is there too. It has any certificate inside of it
that is also in the directory but not the ones I added by myself over
the years.
Today was the 1st time I had to add a certificate to thefile because a
tool looked into that file and not into the directory.
Please what is the relation to the directory and ca-certificates.crt and
is there a tool/command to that adds new certificates to the file too?
Strictly speaking this isn't an OpenSSL question. OpenSSL does not
create or distribute the contents of /etc/ssl/certs. However it *does*
provide the ability to read a set of CA certs from either a directory or
a file. Applications can choose to work which ever way they want.
I assume that distros have opted to provide both a directory *and* a
file so that they can supply certs for which ever way an application
chooses to work.
My understanding is that you are supposed to put locally added certs in
/usr/local/share/ca-certficates, and then run the update-ca-certificates
tool which updates both the directory and the file.
Matt
If the system is a recent version of Debian or similar (this may or may
not include DevUan and Ubuntu), you are supposed to put your private
certificates in /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/*.crt while the system
supplied root certs are in /usr/share/ca-certificates/ . Then rerun
dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates, and edit (by check boxes) which of the
standard CAs you trust. The ones in /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/
are trusted unconditionally, no questions asked. Due to bugs, you may
have to run the command twice, with the same selections.
Enjoy
Jakob
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