[KLUG Members] certificates

[Bruce Smith]

> 1) for a new project on my work we need access to priveledged data, from 
> an inssurrance company. They offer a verisign cert. to access there data 
> via a brower.
> 2) some external guy installed 10 new m$ based clients last week. Took 
> more than a week to get them alle running (...) -> lesson: never take a 
> vacation :-)
> 3) I want to replace that 10 clients as soon as possible by diskless 
> clients (thats should be easy just remove the disk)
> 4) but those clients need that access to that inssurance company.
> 5) I have the choise here to get 10 certs and installl them on each 
> client or to try to get it running on ltsp. Migth still need 10 certs btw
> If I install those certs on the m$ clients I most likely don;t get a 
> change to get ltsp clients here for some time.
> 
> Because the certifcates are $100 each, I can't just go and try and see 
> how far I can take it. What I have tried so far is that it looks like 
> that some files need to be installed on the client to get the 
> certificate activated.

If I'm not mistaken, aren't the certs stored in the user's home
directory?  (LTSP users each have their own home directory)  And, 
aren't the certs tied to the user info some how?  If all of the 
above is true, it would seem like each user needs their own cert.

 - BS