Hi Kyle

Kyle Hamilton wrote:
> OpenSSL does not distribute a CA bundle anymore.  What is your
> OS/vendor?  What is the name of the file that it was actually
> validating against, including full pathname?
>
> Which version of OpenSSL are you working with, also?
>   
On my centos 5.2 the bundle is in /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem. When I set the
environment variable SSL_CERT_FILE=/dev/null it works as I want it too.
An strace verifies that it doesn't open /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem and also
reads the root CA in my select CApath.



> -Kyle H
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Rodney McDuff <mcd...@its.uq.edu.au> wrote:
>   
>> I am doing some verifying with openssl on a chain of certs with a
>> (versign) root CA and all other certs in the CApath directory and it was
>> giving me a "OKs".  A little stracing showed me that openssl was using
>> the versign root in the openssl ca bundle and not my versign root in my
>> CApath directory. So even if I removed the versign root from my CApath
>> directory it would still verify OK.
>>
>> As my purpose is to verify against a single set of certs (not two sets
>> of certs) this behavior is annoying. I can just delete the openssl ca
>> bundle and get the behavior I want but what else will this break on the
>> machine. I can't seem to find a cmdline switch or environment variable
>> to stop it's ca bundle.
>>
>> Any ideas.
>>
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