From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: gnutls: Configure location of system-wide trust store Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 14:36:29 +0100 Message-ID: <20150208133629.GA29440@debian> References: <87r3u7di49.fsf@netris.org> <20150204123652.GA21908@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> <877fvxit9e.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44335) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKS2l-0003vJ-37 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 08:37:00 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKS2g-0007kJ-3m for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 08:36:59 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.24]:61576) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKS2f-0007jd-RT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 08:36:54 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877fvxit9e.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 10:35:57AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > I agree it would be good if upstream supported such a variable, so > please do propose it to them! I think it has to be done upstream > because of the potential security implications of setuid programs, as I > mentioned in the thread a year ago. I asked the question on the gnutls mailing list, and Nikos replied that we should use p11-kit. (Actually a package that is on my git stash, because it caused problems for reasons I do not remember.) We could try to get inspiration from fedora as explained in the thread: http://lists.gnutls.org/pipermail/gnutls-devel/2015-February/007442.html Andreas