new certificate for svn.freebsd.org?

Ben Steel bhs at precisionforesight.com
Sat Jun 18 20:35:24 UTC 2016


* Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> [160618 11:21]:
 > Even so, the option used to be off by default: the change to 'on by
 > default' was made almost exactly a year ago, and there have been
 > several changes to the list of certs since, so not having the symlink
 > in place indicates either that you haven't updated your ports
 > recently, or that you've specifically chosen not to enable the
 > symlink.  In which case you wouldn't have been able to validate the
 > previous cert either.
 >
 > There really is no excuse for not updating the ca_root_nss port
 > immediately there are updates available.  Otherwise you can end up
 > trusting certificates that have since been shown to be less than
 > trustworthy.
 >
 > That you couldn't verify the cert is not a bug in FreeBSD, but a
 > configuration problem in your own system.  Not having the right
 > fingerprint in the docs certainly is a bug which I'm sure will be
 > addressed soon.

Thanks for the warnings, Matthew. In my case, the symlink was in place 
in all the relevant jails, just not on the underlying system, which 
pre-dated the config change and communicated only with svn.freebsd.org 
to update the src and ports trees daily. That key had been manually 
verified long ago. I moved the bug report to documentation as soon as I 
realized that my lack of a symlink was at fault.

Hope this helps,
Ben


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