From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: gnutls: Configure location of system-wide trust store Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 10:59:19 -0500 Message-ID: <87bnl4tmw8.fsf@netris.org> References: <87r3u7di49.fsf@netris.org> <20150204123652.GA21908@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> <877fvxit9e.fsf@netris.org> <20150208133629.GA29440@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34820) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKUGV-00050O-LI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 10:59:20 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKUGS-0000mY-Fs for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 10:59:19 -0500 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:40380) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKUGS-0000mS-BR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 10:59:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20150208133629.GA29440@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Sun, 8 Feb 2015 14:36:29 +0100") 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: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, Andreas Enge writes: > 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 I won't have much time this week to look closely, but in broad terms this sounds like the right approach to me. Thanks for working on it! Mark