where 'o where to store certificates and keys

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Tue Apr 19 21:14:40 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 16:24 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > +1 from me.  From a desktop perspective, we need _one_ place to store
> > user certs and keys.  For example, in the future when NetworkManager
> > supports 802.1x and wireless authentication with WPA, we'll need a place
> > to store the user's certs for authentication against the access point
> > and RADIUS server.  Evolution stores user certs.  Many other things do
> > as well.  Its just plain dumb to have this stuff everywhere and not
> > manageable by an application.
> > 
> 
> Well lets be clear - user certs shouldn't be in /etc
> 
> users shouldn't be able to write to /etc
> 
> users' keys should be either in their home dir or on some sort of
> removeable media.

Well, really isn't he talking about user-acquired certs for the machine?

It's not quite the same thing as either case.
-- 
        Peter




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