[nylug-talk] import SSL

[Lindsay Hausner]

--- C Thala <cthala at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have a self generated cert for our company, that
> we use to sign
> internal sites.
> 
> We have this master cert "imported" onto all desktop
> PCs (all Windows
> XP), so that when users browse our internal site,
> the cert is accepted
> as if it were sign by Verisigned, etc.
> 
> Now we have a Linux box that has a program running
> on it that is
> accessing these internal sites. It is throwing an
> error because the
> cert is not recognized. How can I "import" (maybe
> that is not the
> correct term), this master cert into the Linux box
> such that it is
> trusted?
> 
It will depend on the program.  Window uses a
'certificate store' in which trusted certificates are
stored.  There is not an equivalent on Linux, so the
program itself will have to trust the cert, not the
OS.

lh..
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