[workspace-dev] [workspace-user] Is CA hardcoded in cloud client

[Tim Freeman]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:40:44 +0530
Aaditya kumar <passion.for.systems at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi ,
>      I have downloaded cloud client 2.4
>      I wanted to know that is this client hardcoded to use SimpleCA as
> certificate Authority or we can
>      configure it through some conf file . I have not been able to
> find the conf file where it can bee configured in all of the docs.
>      If it is indeed a configurable parameter could anybody point me
> at the exact file(s) where it can be set.
>      I havent got the certficate form simpleCA instead I copied my
> workservice embeded nimbus CA cert in a new directory
>     and I get this output ..

The certificates that the cloud client will respect when verifying remote host
certificates are in the "lib/certs" directory of the cloud client.

As of cloud client 16 (which is only in RC2 state right now), you can override
that using the NIMBUS_X509_TRUSTED_CERTS environment variable to point at
another directory.

The "6045a439" you are seeing is an advisory message only.  This is something
you could override in the cloud.properties file you distribute to your users
(putting e.g. "vws.cahash=01abcdef" in it).

Docs for extra properties were here before 2.5:

  http://www.nimbusproject.org/docs/2.4/doc/cloud.html#configs

And here now:

  http://www.nimbusproject.org/docs/2.5/admin/reference.html#cloud-properties


Tim