[openssl-users] c_hash/ca-certificates.crt

[Jakob Bohm]

On 23/02/2018 15:55, Matt Caswell wrote:
>
> On 23/02/18 14:06, etc at coderhacks.com wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Normally I put new certificates into /etc/ssl/certs and create the
>> hash-link.
>> That workes for me for many years.
>>
>>
>> Just found out 2 new things agout that.
>>
>> 1. There is c_hash that does the creation of the hash-link for me.
>> Great!
>>
>> 2. ca-certificates.crt is there too. It has any certificate inside of it
>> that is also in the directory but not the ones I added by myself over
>> the years.
>> Today was the 1st time I had to add a certificate to thefile because a
>> tool looked into that file and not into the directory.
>>
>> Please what is the relation to the directory and ca-certificates.crt and
>> is there a tool/command to that adds new certificates to the file too?
> Strictly speaking this isn't an OpenSSL question. OpenSSL does not
> create or distribute the contents of /etc/ssl/certs. However it *does*
> provide the ability to read a set of CA certs from either a directory or
> a file. Applications can choose to work which ever way they want.
>
> I assume that distros have opted to provide both a directory *and* a
> file so that they can supply certs for which ever way an application
> chooses to work.
>
> My understanding is that you are supposed to put locally added certs in
> /usr/local/share/ca-certficates, and then run the update-ca-certificates
> tool which updates both the directory and the file.
>
> Matt
If the system is a recent version of Debian or similar (this may or may
not include DevUan and Ubuntu), you are supposed to put your private
certificates in /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/*.crt while the system
supplied root certs are in /usr/share/ca-certificates/ .  Then rerun
dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates, and edit (by check boxes) which of the
standard CAs you trust.  The ones in /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/
are trusted unconditionally, no questions asked.  Due to bugs, you may
have to run the command twice, with the same selections.

Enjoy

Jakob
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