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Which tools should be shipped with NSS? | Which tools should be shipped with NSS? | ||
On operating systems that ship NSS as a system library, it's a good idea to ship the NSS tools as well. This page is meant to reach an agreement which tools can be shipped and what requirements that would have. | On operating systems that ship NSS as a system library, it's a good idea to ship the NSS tools as well. This page is meant to reach an agreement on which tools can be shipped and what requirements that would have. | ||
==Proposal: main tools vs. unsupported tools== | ==Proposal: main tools vs. unsupported tools== | ||
Distinguish between: | |||
*"main" tools that get installed in the global program search path (like /usr/bin on Linux) and should therefore be documented and part of NSS | *"main" tools that get installed in the global program search path (like /usr/bin on Linux) and should therefore be documented and part of NSS QA | ||
*"unsupported" tools that do not have documentation, that are not necessarily part of the NSS QA, that will not get installed in the search path, but in a secondary location like /usr/lib/nss/unsupported-tools | *"unsupported" tools that do not have documentation, that are not necessarily part of the NSS QA, that will not get installed in the search path, but in a secondary location like /usr/lib/nss/unsupported-tools | ||
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==Group 1: Tools that are shipping already== | ==Group 1: Tools that are shipping already== | ||
The following tools | The following tools have sufficient docs and are already being shipped by some vendors: | ||
Note the NSS tools documentation page is at: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tools/ | Note the NSS tools documentation page is at: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tools/ | ||
*certutil | *certutil | ||