[Osiris-devel]storing root certificates

[Paul Holman]

I'd probably just plan on having an /etc/osiris directory, which will 
invariably become /usr/local/etc/osiris or whatever is distro specific.  
You'll eventually have more than a root cert.  Then do the usual 
discovery dance, picking up the cert from ~/.osiris first and trying 
/etc/osiris after that.

pablos.

On Thursday, August 8, 2002, at 01:16 PM, Brian Wotring wrote:

>
> 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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