Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:45:00 -0400
> Jonathan Oksman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> /etc/ssl/certs makes sense to me.  I'm an /etc minimalist though and
>> don't like having extra content without a really good reason.
>>
>> /etc/pki could make sense if you wanted your certificate information
>> available in a single location independent of ssl specifically, but I
>> can't think of any reason for BLFS since there are no other packages
>> that directly handle certificates in use, as far as I recall.
> 
> You raise a good point; what program is going to use these
> certificates? It seems to me that different programs handle ssl
> certificates in different ways.

Programs I can think of right now are browsers, ssh/scp, wget, curl, 
pop3s, imaps, gnutls, bind, apache, vsftpd, ldap, cups, subversion, and 
mysql.  Many of these will use openssl as the underlying implementation, 
but they may specify their own location for certificates.

I guess we should go ahead and continue to use /etc/ssl/certs and handle 
other situations as they come up as needed.

   -- Bruce
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