Thanks for the tip, Joe. I didn't realize that they were already compiled
into a single file. Following your lead I came across the command
'update-ca-certificates' which can be used to update the
/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt file.

Rob

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Joe Gooch <[email protected]> wrote:

> My guess would be that because it's for client verification, not for
> general trust determination, that the verification list is separate from the
> default system ca list.  I'd have to look in the code to confirm.
>
>
> If your Ubuntu box is like my Debian Lenny box, wouldn't all the certs in
> /etc/ssl/certs/ be compiled/concatenated into
> /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt?  That would be your system list.
>
> If they aren't already, it would be relatively trivial to run cat
> /etc/ssl/certs/*.pem > /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt as part of the
> pound init.d or startup script.
>
> Joe
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Moore [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 11:31 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Pound Mailing List] Possible to use system certificates for
> > client cert verification?
> >
> > I would like to use the CA certificates installed as part of the OS
> > (Ubuntu
> > Linux in this case) to verify client certificates rather than specify a
> > particular file containing these CA certificates using VerifyList. I've
> > tried specifying "ClientCert 2 9" without defining VerifyList but
> > received
> > an error which I assume is because no VerifyList has been defined.
> >
> > I'd thought that the OpenSSL libraries would pick up the system
> > certificates
> > by default but perhaps this is not the case?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
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