From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] profiles: Produce a single-file CA certificate bundle
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 13:43:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sidmmeth.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fv9medxv.fsf_-_@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:29:48 -0500")
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>>
>>> In order to support multiple packages containing CA certs, it would be
>>> good to handle creation of the single-file cert bundle in the profile
>>> generation code, analogous to our handling of info "dir" files. This
>>> would allow us to create additional cert packages (e.g. one for
>>> CAcert.org).
>>>
>>> I think it belongs in the profile generation code for the benefit of
>>> users running Guix packages on top of another distro, where they might
>>> not have root access. They can simply set GIT_SSL_CAINFO and
>>> SSL_CERT_FILE to ~/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/ca-certificates.crt
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> It’s a good but as of yet unimplemented idea.
>>
>> Although I now realize we could perhaps simple move the
>> ‘certificate-bundle’ procedure to (guix profile), add the certificate
>> package to the system profile, and make /etc/ssl a symlink to
>> /run/current-system/profile/etc/ssl.
>
> I've attached patches that implement this. They assume that 993300f and
> e979e6d are first reverted. Comments and suggestions welcome.
Both look good to me.
> It would also be good to add search-path-specifications for
> SSL_CERT_FILE to 'openssl' and GIT_SSL_CAINFO to 'git' in core-updates,
> but I'm not sure how best to do that. Would you be willing to do it,
> Ludovic?
I just checked the source and OpenSSL itself does not use SSL_CERT_FILE
nor SSL_CERT_DIR at all. Lynx does use SSL_CERT_FILE, but that’s really
in Lynx, not in libssl. So I don’t think there should be a search path
specification for OpenSSL. This is unfortunate, but it looks like we
can’t do much.
We could add that variable to Lynx itself, but it’s not actually a
search path but just a file name.
Thoughts?
> +# These variables are honored by OpenSSL (libssl) and Git.
Replace “OpenSSL (libssl)” by “some applications such as Lynx”.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-03 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-02 23:11 [PATCH] gnu: gnutls: Configure location of system-wide trust store Mark H Weaver
2015-02-03 0:01 ` David Thompson
2015-02-03 20:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-03 20:57 ` Marek Benc
2015-02-04 12:36 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-04 12:42 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-04 15:35 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-02-05 9:59 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-08 13:36 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-08 14:29 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-08 15:24 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-08 15:59 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-02-15 5:17 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-02-15 9:16 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-15 16:59 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-02-23 21:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-24 20:31 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-02-25 0:25 ` Andreas Enge
2015-03-02 22:12 ` /etc/ssl/certs and the certificate bundle Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-03 2:25 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-03-03 7:29 ` [PATCHES] profiles: Produce a single-file CA " Mark H Weaver
2015-03-03 8:27 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-03-03 12:23 ` Andreas Enge
2015-03-03 12:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-03 19:33 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-03-03 20:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-03 12:43 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-03-03 12:55 ` Andreas Enge
2015-03-03 20:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
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