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From: Xavier Parizet <blackhawk@××××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Importing Certificate Authority
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:53:27
Message-Id: 1626.83.157.134.175.1181929538.squirrel@secure.linuxant.fr
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Importing Certificate Authority by Xavier Parizet
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5 On Fri, June 15, 2007 19:12, Xavier Parizet wrote:
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10 > On Fri, June 15, 2007 18:34, Willie Wong wrote:
11 >> Hi group,
12 >>
13 >> Is there anyway of importing a certificate authority for just one
14 >> user?
15 >>
16 >> My university/department uses a self-signed SSL certificate for
17 >> IMAPS, and since it was implemented, 'fetchmail' from my machine
18 >> always generates an error message
19 >> fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self-signed
20 >> certificate in certifiate chain
21 >> and so my inbox gets slightly cluttered with these error messages
22 >> from the cron job.
23 >>
24 >> So the certificate (I think) is here:
25 >> http://www.math.princeton.edu/math.crt
26 >>
27 >> How do I tell my computer to trust the certificate? (In particular,
28 >> with fetchmail?)
29 > Retrieve the certificate from the previous address and move it to a
30 > directory D, and add the following lines to your .fetchmailrc :
31 > =================================================================
32 > sslcertpath D # where D is the directory where is the certificate
33 > =================================================================
34 > You can also add sslcertck if you want fetchmail to check whether the
35 > certificate presented by the server is trusted or not...
36 I forget to tell you that you have to run c_rehash in the directory where
37 you have stored the certificate to make symbolic links whith his hash
38 value...
39 >>
40 >> Thanks,
41 >>
42 >> W
43 >> --
44 >> M: I hope I don't squish your head. (Leaning back on chair)
45 >> W: It's okay. Wait a minute. It's NOT okay.... (Lying under chair)
46 >> Sortir en Pantoufles: up 189 days, 14:44
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Importing Certificate Authority Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>