Bug 143393

Summary:	Creates certificates + keys at an insecure/bad place
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla>
Component:	openldap	Assignee:	Jay Fenlason <fenlason>
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Description Enrico Scholz 2004-12-20 11:30:23 UTC

[ This is (nearly) a copy of bug #141479 ]

Description of problem:

The %post scriptlet creates the SSL certificate at /usr/share/ssl. This
causes problems because:

* the /usr filesystem (inclusive /usr/share/ssl) can be shared between
  several hosts; when there are multiple imap-servers, every one would
  use the same certificate. This will not work because CN must match
  the DNS name.

  This causes problems also, when /usr is mounted read-only. Then the
  %post-scriptlet will fail because the certificate can not be created.


* the sharing happens in >90% of all cases over an unencrypted
  network-filesystem (NFS). So, an attacker could easily get the
  SSL key.

A better place for the certificates would be somewhere under /etc.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

openldap-servers-2.2.13-2

Comment 1 Jay Fenlason 2005-08-22 18:09:04 UTC

*** Bug 166462 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Jay Fenlason 2006-01-11 16:19:55 UTC

Current rawhide puts ssl terts in /etc/pki/tls/certs/