So many trusted authorities

Posted Feb 4, 2010 10:56 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: So many trusted authorities by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Mozilla and CNNIC

FWIW, Debian prompts the user in a "medium" priority debconf checkboxes for which of the CAs to enable.

The list is a long one, and provides practically no information about the specific CA besides its name. It can be re-run later using the standard dpkg-reconfigure.

So it's a single dialog rather than dozens of prompts. But somehow I'm not sure the UI is optimal (or even reasonable).

So many trusted authorities

Posted Feb 4, 2010 16:32 UTC (Thu) by ejr (subscriber, #51652) [Link] (1 responses)

No, Debian prompts the system administrator and not the user.

So many trusted authorities

Posted Feb 4, 2010 21:43 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

They're the same person, and have been for going on 25 years now.