[Freeipa-devel] [RFE] CA-less install

[Petr Viktorin]

On 03/27/2013 04:40 PM, John Dennis wrote:
> On 03/27/2013 11:23 AM, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>> I don't want to check the subject because this RFE was prompted by IPA's
>> normal CA rejecting valid wildcart certs. Is there a reasonable way to
>> ask NSS if it will trust the cert?
>
> Yes. NSS provides a variety of tools to test validation.

Thanks! I'll take a look at it again.

> Going just on memory here, our current version of python-nss has a
> simple call to test validation. Sometime in the last year I added a fair
> amount of new support for certificate validation including getting back
> diagnostic information for validation failures, however if I recall
> correctly the extended functionality in python-nss has not been released
> yet.

I'll add verify_hostname from the validation example; if there's 
anything else please give me a pointer -- I haven't read all the docs, yet.

-- 
Petr³