[Evolution] Hardware security devices (solved)
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notzed@ximian.com
Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:41:13 +0800
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On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 09:04 -0300, Roberto Salomon wrote:
> Solved it!
>
> On another thread regarding certificates, I found that since Evolution
> uses Mozilla's libnss, Mozilla's certificate database can be imported
> into Evolution by copying the files cert8.db, key3.db and secmod.db
> from ~/.mozilla/<user>/<random>/ to ~/.evolution. I did this at first
> to import the root certificates into Evolution in order to validate
> digitally signed messages. I was very surprised, however, when
> Evolution prompted me for the PIN on the hardware device!
>
> Although this is an interesting and functional workaround, I would
> like to see a user interface to access hardware devices within
> Evolution and not have to go through all the hassle of recopying files
> from Mozilla to Evolution. Any plans on this?
None at present that i'm aware of, but it would make sense. The problem
with much of libnss is its basically non-documented, etc.
Its nice to know this workaround exists though.
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Michael Zucchi <notzed@ximian.com>
Ximian Evolution and Free Software
Developer
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On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 09:04 -0300, Roberto Salomon wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Solved it!</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On another thread regarding certificates, I found that since Evolution uses Mozilla's libnss, Mozilla's certificate database can be imported into Evolution by copying the files cert8.db, key3.db and secmod.db from ~/.mozilla/<user>/<random>/ to ~/.evolution. I did this at first to import the root certificates into Evolution in order to validate digitally signed messages. I was very surprised, however, when Evolution prompted me for the PIN on the hardware device!</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Although this is an interesting and functional workaround, I would like to see a user interface to access hardware devices within Evolution and not have to go through all the hassle of recopying files from Mozilla to Evolution. Any plans on this?</FONT><BR>
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None at present that i'm aware of, but it would make sense. The problem with much of libnss is its basically non-documented, etc.<BR>
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Its nice to know this workaround exists though.<BR>
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