Re: Peer's certificate issuer is unknown while certificates have been added

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 09/20/2012 05:55 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> That said, if you *do* want to add trusted root CAs to a debian-derived
> system that aren't already shipped in the ca-certificates package, you
> probably don't want to tamper with the contents of
> /usr/share/ca-certificates directly.  That part of the filesystem is
> controlled by the ca-certificates package.
> 
> Instead, for any CA that you want to add to a system as the admin, you
> only need to drop a world-readable PEM-encoded file containing the CA's
> certificate into /usr/share/ca-certificates/, and then re-run
> "update-ca-certificates" as the superuser.  This will create links
> properly under /etc/ssl/certs, and will include them in
> /etc/ssl/ca-certificates.crt.
> 

gah -- the above is wrong in a very confusing way, apologies!

 /usr/share/ca-certificates

is controlled by the ca-certificates package.


But the local system administrator has free reign over:

 /usr/local/share/ca-certificates

note the "/local/", which i sloppily left out of my original next.

files in the latter directory are automatically added to the system
default list of trusted root authorities whenever update-ca-certificates
is run.

sorry for adding to the confusion,

        --dkg

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