[20944] in Athena Bugs
Re: Mozilla certs (again)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Oct 21 13:35:32 2002
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:35:30 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Chris Toepel <ctoepel@MIT.EDU>, bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
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t. belton <tbelton@MIT.EDU> wrote on Mon, 21 Oct 2002
at 13:33:07 -0400 in <Pine.GSO.4.33L.0210211325300.17610-100000@iphigenia.mit.edu>:
> At the time, I didn't know if the converted certs were enough of a problem
> to justify having the script do the deletion automatically. I'm still not
> sure.
I certainly agree that you don't have sufficient compelling evidence
to do so, and it's really too late to make any sweeping changes. The vast
majority of people have run mozilla already [one assumes...].
> Code Red: Happens so often that it's worth nuking the 4.x certs
> automatically in the wrapper, therefore forcing people to get fresh certs
> when they install Mozilla, no choice about it.
Eww, I wouldn't want to nuke the 4.x certs, surely there's a better way
[dreams of sugarplum fairies and shadow symlink trees etc.]
> I'm currently thinking somewhere around code orange.
Well, I don't really think it would productive to change the response
now...
--jhawk
