第3章 Using shared system certificates


Learn to use the centralized system truststore in RHEL for managing TLS certificates. Using a shared trust location simplifies certificate management and verification across the system.

3.1. The system-wide truststore

RHEL contains a centralized system for managing TLS certificates. This shared certificate storage serves as a unified source that NSS, GnuTLS, OpenSSL, and Java use to retrieve system certificate anchors and blocklist information.

By default, the truststore contains the Mozilla CA list, which includes both positive and negative trust. You can update the core Mozilla CA list by using the centralized system.

The consolidated system-wide truststore is located in the /etc/pki/ca-trust/ and /usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source/ directories. The trust settings in /usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source/ have lower priority than settings in /etc/pki/ca-trust/.

The system treats certificate files based on the subdirectory to which you install them:

  • Trust anchors belong to

    • /usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source/anchors/ or
    • /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/.
  • Distrusted certificates are stored in

    • /usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source/blocklist/ or
    • /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/blocklist/.
  • Certificates in the extended BEGIN TRUSTED file (OpenSSL trust certificate) format are located in

    • /usr/share/pki/ca-trust-source/ or
    • /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/.

To add a new certificate to the truststore, copy the file containing your certificate to the corresponding directory and use the update-ca-trust command to apply the changes. Alternatively, use the trust anchor subcommand.

See the update-ca-trust(8) and trust(1) man pages on your system for more information.

注記

In a hierarchical cryptographic system, a trust anchor is an authoritative entity that other parties consider trustworthy. In the X.509 architecture, a root certificate is a trust anchor from which a chain of trust is derived. To enable chain validation, the trusting party must first have access to the trust anchor.

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