Re: [Fed-Talk] Certificate selection and secure web sites.
Re: [Fed-Talk] Certificate selection and secure web sites.
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Certificate selection and secure web sites.
- From: Boyd Fletcher <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:16:40 -0400
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Certificate selection and secure web sites.
how do we get that application?
On 9/10/08 3:09 PM, "Patrick M McNeal" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 9/10/08 12:04 PM, "Boyd Fletcher" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I agree 100% that the current approach of manually setting the ID preference
>> in Keychain Access is a disaster and is the most user unfriendly solution I
>> have ever seen. I have spent a ton of time lately trying to show regular
>> users how to set the ID preferences for web sites. The users are getting
>> frustrated and fed up with this approach - its just plain bad engineering.
>
> As a workaround, we created a tool that does the configuration for the user.
> When run, the application downloads a list of sites to setup, asks the user
> which certificate to use and adds the appropriate identity preferences.
>
> It's made life easier, but has put us in the position of maintaining a list
> of sites to configure. Ideally, Apple would add support for wildcards,
> allowing us to set a single https://*.mit.edu preference.
>
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