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Linux lacks a lot of APIs other operating systems have and certificate management is one of them. A Linux equivalent of listing certificates through the Window
by jeroenhd 11mo ago
Linux lacks a lot of APIs other operating systems have and certificate management is one of them.
A Linux equivalent of listing certificates through the Windows virtual file system would be something like listing /proc/self/tls/certificates (which doesn't actually exist, of course, because Linux has decided that stuff like that is the user's problem to set up and not an OS API).
- 1718627440 11mo agoA GNU/Linux OS does not lack them. As do other OSes using Linux. Linux isn't a OS, it is a kernel. You wouldn't complain, that the NT kernel lacks a graphical file explorer.
- jeroenhd 11mo agoFair enough; the Linux kernel is arguably missing the API, but only for kTLS. However, GNU/Linux does lack such an API. There is no standard API for listing certificates and private keys. All GNU/Linux provides is a list of files that may or may not contain one or more certificates and/or private keys that may or may not be related to each other. You have to go beyond the basic GNU parts to get to things like keychains.
- 1718627440 11mo agoI wrote "a GNU/Linux OS", not "GNU/Linux". A specific OS will have them.