Certificate / key dir is not configurable

[Frank Schütte]

Hallo,
I like epoptes. It is fast and easy to use.

I administer a school network with multiple computer labs. So the group teachers is maintained on a server and it would make configuration of computers much easier, if I could use a network share to host the certificates public and the keys private for the teachers group.

I created a patch for this. I'm not sure if this is the correct way to submit my request and my patch.

Please consider including the patch into epoptes.

Greetings,
Frank Schütte

[Fotis Tsamis (ftsamis)]

Hi, thanks for the patch,
why aren't you just using symlinks instead?
You can symlink /etc/epoptes to a directory of your choice, even if it is network-mounted.

For example, in all the client computers,
rm -rf /etc/epoptes
ln -s /media/network-share/epoptes /etc/epoptes

[Frank Schütte (f-schuette)]

Hi,
I have 4 computer labs with different keys and the installation is the same on all epoptes clients/servers. A link would not work because the network filesystem is not mounted. Later on the filesystem is mounted as user and the access rights are too restricted.
That's why I use the variable.
It would help my work as admin in a school environment.

[Fotis Tsamis (ftsamis)]

> A link would not work because the network filesystem is not mounted.
> Later on the filesystem is mounted as user and the access rights are too restricted.

Where is the filesystem mounted as user?
Is it mounted on the same dir for all users, or the path is different per user?
E.g. is it mounted on /media/network-share,
or on /home/$USER/network-share?

In the first case, the symlink will work even if the share is mounted on login.
If it depends on $USER, yeah symlinks won't help there.

But then you would need to dynamically specify the epoptes certificate location too, on user login.
Are you using a script for that? If so, can you paste the lines that set SERVERKEY and SERVERCRT?

[Frank Schütte (f-schuette)]

Hallo Fotis,
you are right.
The symlink points to a general location like /home/share/teachers/... and it works
to create the symlink even though the file and intermediate dirs are not available.

My patch is not needed.
Please close this issue.

Thank you for your help.

Bye,
Frank

[Fotis Tsamis (ftsamis)]

Marking as invalid as commented on #5.