what's the story with openssl?

Shane Ambler FreeBSD at ShaneWare.Biz
Tue Dec 30 03:09:27 UTC 2014


On 29/12/2014 05:13, David Benfell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This seems like it should be an unbelievably stupid question. But I
> guess FreeBSD's idea of sane defaults for openssl do not accord with
> my idea of sane defaults for openssl.
>
> I have tried the security/ca_root_nss port now both with and without
> the option to create the link in /etc. It doesn't help.
>
> Why am I having to specify --ca-certificate
> /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt to make wget work? What do I
> have to do to make this not necessary--and *stay* not necessary?
>
> Thanks!
>

~/.wgetrc is wget's startup file and can hold any config you want to
always be used by wget.

I expect the entry to be
ca-certificate = /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt
or maybe
ca-directory = /usr/local/share/certs/


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