Linux and SSL certificates.

Aleksandar Milivojevic amilivojevic at pbl.ca
Thu Apr 21 15:41:44 UTC 2005


akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> However, under Linux the ipop, imap, etc certificates are in
> /usr/share/ssl/certs and the https certificate is in a completely
> different place.

The place certificate is on the disk, and the name of the file (or 
extension on the filename) is not important.  For each and every 
application you mentioned, you can change where it searches for the 
certificate from the application's configuration file (for example, 
/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf for Apache web server).  So you can point all 
of them to look for certificate in /usr/share/ssl/certs, or /etc/certs, 
or wherever else you choose to store it on the disk.  They can all share 
the same file.

If you don't want to change default configuration (don't see any reason 
why you wouldn't want to do it, but that is your call), just create 
symbolic links or make copy of the files wherever the application 
expects the certificate to be.

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