On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:21:04PM -0800, wes wrote:
>> Are you importing the hospital's CA into firefox? or just setting 
>> an exception for that host to not require a valid SSL cert?
>
> Firefox, and probably other tools.  The hospital is using Citrix, 
> and that is using the same infrastructure, but it seems to want the 
> certs someplace in addition to the Firefox certs and exceptions. I 
> think, not clear yet.  I was doing this in the evening, when the 
> linux-aware-though-not-skilled folks were at home.  More tomorrow, 
> perhaps.

It's the "probably other tools" that might hang you up.

Different distributions manage server or CA certificates 
idiosyncratically if you need the system OpenSSL libraries to 
recognize the certificate.

Debian: The hard-but-proper way is to put the certificate into the 
/usr/share/ca-certificates hierarchy, edit /etc/ca-certificates.conf 
accordingly, and run /usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates.

(Easier is just to drop the certificate into /etc/ssl/certs and run 
"/usr/bin/c_rehash /etc/ssl/certs".)

RHEL/CentOS: add the certificate to /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/
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