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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If you’re referring to files in /etc/pki, that’s not a management API, like CAPI or CNG provides in Windows (and a like API in OSX).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">There’s a keychain solution in Gnome (GNOME/Keyring) but not widely adopted that I’ve seen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This just seems a good match to have available within systemd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>To:</b> SCOTT FIELDS <Scott.Fields@kyndryl.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [systemd-devel] certificate and trust store feature for systemd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Are there any plans to have system natively support its own trust store for items like CAs, x509 certs, passwords &
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Are there any plans to have system natively support its own trust store for items like CAs, x509 certs, passwords & truststores akin to the keychain in Windows and OS X?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">But these are solved problems on modern Linux systems aren't they?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">At least with RHEL and Fedora they have trust store and keychains.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I still find the management of PKIs in /etc/pki to be problematic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For my home network I have my own DNS domain and CA setup. It was easy to add the CA to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Fedora's trust store.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Having this available as a core service within systemd using like APIs either in (mostly deprecated) CAPI or the new CNG<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SRE – BNSF<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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