[Osiris-devel]storing root certificates

Brian Wotring brian at shmoo.com
Thu Aug 8 16:16:14 EDT 2002


I have a question regarding osiris management applications ( CLI, or 
GUI ) and how/where they store the root cert used to authenticate 
communications to the management host.  The default is 
/usr/local/osiris, but that doesn't work well in the case where the user 
doesn't have the ability or want to create that directory.

Other solutions include storing the root cert in the current directory, 
the user's home directory, or creating a ".osiris" directory in user's 
$HOME and putting the cert in there.  I like the latter the best for 
reasons of convention, and safety.  The problem, though, is that when 
multiple users make use of the application it makes more sense to have 
it in a single location rather than in home directories.

It's a small problem, I know.

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     Brian Wotring  ( brian at shmoo.com )
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