How about you put them wherever the reader happens to be using them and delete 
them when done?

Jonathan Oksman <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>>
>> There are two scripts used now:  mkblfsca.sh and mkcert.pl.  They
>total
>> 125 lines.
>>
>> I'm not sure how to present this.  I could put the scripts in a
>tarball,
>> but that seems like overkill for about 3K of scripts.
>>
>
>That's not too long, I think having it as part of the book sounds like
>a good thing.
>
>>
>> My inclination is to just put the scripts in the book and tell the
>user
>> to place them in /root, fetch the certdata, and run the scripts.  We
>> might want to do an install of of the directory /etc/ssl/certs to
>make
>> sure it exists.
>>
>> Placing the scripts in /root is a bit unusual, but really, only root
>> should be touching CA Certificates.
>>
>
>From your description I get the idea that these scripts are meant as a
>one-shot setup of the certificates after calling a wget for the
>certdata.txt.  If I haven't misinterpreted then there really isn't a
>better spot for these and /root is probably a good place to stash them
>for the time being.
>
>If these scripts were capable of updating the certificates then maybe
>/usr/sbin would be a sane location.
>
>
>Jonathan
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