Re: Managing SSL certificates

2005-10-17 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit sean finney dies 16/10/2005 hora 11:00: > also, i think extreme care should be take wrt these ssl certificates. > i don't think they should be blindly purged at package removal (or > probably even package purge) time, without getting permission from the > local admin. I think that this SSL

Re: Managing SSL certificates

2005-10-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:35:40 +0200, Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think better than yet another complex system to handle reference >counts and stuff all packages should by default just be configured to >use /the/ host certificate. > >That is, have all packages that need ssl certs de

Re: Managing SSL certificates

2005-10-17 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 10/16/05, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 03:59:17PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Such a tool would be very nice, and not just because of the cruft they > > leave behind -- many packages currently support SSL connections; some > > automatically generate a se

Re: Managing SSL certificates

2005-10-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 11:00:53AM -0400, sean finney wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 03:59:17PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Such a tool would be very nice, and not just because of the cruft they > > leave behind -- many packages currently support SSL connections; some > > automatically gene

Re: Managing SSL certificates

2005-10-16 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 03:59:17PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Such a tool would be very nice, and not just because of the cruft they > leave behind -- many packages currently support SSL connections; some > automatically generate a self-signed certificate upon installation, > others leave that

Re: Managing SSL certificates

2005-10-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:10:50PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > With my testing of packages in etch with piuparts[1], I occasionally run > into a problem that occurs in many packages in the same way. One such > problem is the creation and deletion of SSL certificates for various > services (imaps

Re: Managing SSL certificates

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:35:40PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > There aren't that many good reasons for having one cert per service > > anyway, > > Preserving isolated security contexts for each service without having to > make the private key

Re: Managing SSL certificates

2005-10-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:35:40PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > There aren't that many good reasons for having one cert per service > anyway, Preserving isolated security contexts for each service without having to make the private key readable to all local users? -- Steve Langasek

Re: Managing SSL certificates

2005-10-15 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 10/15/05, Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > On 10/15/05, Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>We can't know all the names that people will use to refer to your > >>server, so this is one of the cases where you have to do stuff manually > >>anyway

Re: Managing SSL certificates

2005-10-15 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 10/15/05, Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>We can't know all the names that people will use to refer to your >>server, so this is one of the cases where you have to do stuff manually >>anyway. > AFAIK there's an extension to HTTP to allow multiple TLS vhos

Re: Managing SSL certificates

2005-10-15 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 10/15/05, Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:35:40PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > There aren't that many good reasons for having one cert per service > > > anyway > > > > ...except that if you have

Re: Managing SSL certificates

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:35:40PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > There aren't that many good reasons for having one cert per service > > anyway > > ...except that if you have a certificate for hostname.domain.com and your > users connect to (

Re: Managing SSL certificates

2005-10-15 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:35:40PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > There aren't that many good reasons for having one cert per service > anyway ...except that if you have a certificate for hostname.domain.com and your users connect to (say) imap.domain.com, they would get a warning dialog box? /*

Re: Managing SSL certificates

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > My suggestion would be to create a tool to manage installation and > removal of certificates. Something like this: > > update-ssl-certificate --create package servicename > update-ssl-certificate --remove package servicename I think be