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Copyright (C) 2013 Red Hat, Inc.
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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ca-legacy(8)
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============
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:doctype: manpage
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:man source: ca-legacy
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NAME
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ca-legacy - Manage the system configuration for legacy CA certificates
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SYNOPSIS
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*ca-legacy* ['COMMAND']
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DESCRIPTION
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ca-legacy(8) is used to include or exclude a set of legacy Certificate Authority (CA)
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certificates in the system's list of trusted CA certificates.
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The list of CA certificates and trust flags included in the ca-certificates package
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are based on the decisions made by Mozilla.org according to the Mozilla CA policy.
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Occasionally, removal or distrust decisions made by Mozilla.org might be incompatible with the requirements
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or limitations of some applications that also use the CA certificates list in the Linux environment.
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The ca-certificates package might keep some CA certificates included and trusted by default,
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as long as it is seen necessary by the maintainers, despite the fact that they have
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been removed by Mozilla. These certificates are called legacy CA certificates.
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The general requirements to keep legacy CA certificates included and trusted might change over time,
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for example if functional limitations of software packages have been resolved.
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Future versions of the ca-certificates package might reduce the set of legacy CA certificates
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that are included and trusted by default.
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The ca-legacy(8) command can be used to override the default behaviour.
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The mechanisms to individually trust or distrust CA certificates as described in update-ca-trust(8) still apply.
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COMMANDS
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*check*::
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    The current configuration will be shown.
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*default*::
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    Configure the system to use the default configuration, as recommended
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    by the package maintainers.
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*disable*::
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    Configure the system to explicitly disable legacy CA certificates.
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    Using this configuration, the system will use the set of
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    included and trusted CA certificates as released by Mozilla.
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*install*::
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    The configuration file will be read and the system configuration
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    will be set accordingly. This command is executed automatically during
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    upgrades of the ca-certificates package.
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FILES
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/etc/pki/ca-trust/ca-legacy.conf::
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	A configuration file that will be used and modified by the ca-legacy command.
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    The contents of the configuration file will be read on package upgrades.
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AUTHOR
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Written by Kai Engert.