Ability to specify file path for saving the root certificate files about win-ca HOT 7 CLOSED

win-ca v2.3.0 is out!

from win-ca.

According to the windows guidelines, applications shall not require write permissions to their folder

Yes, writing to program folder is definetly not a best practice on Windows.
But win-ca was developed primarily as proof of concept.

And in most cases this behaviour is just fine.
I think we should preserve it but allow some fallback to
save certificates to user profile folder in some rare cases.

I wonder if it is OK to add the ability for specifying the path for the root certificates

It is certainly possible (and even easy),
but I prefer not to have any configuration file
(or environment variable,
or registry key etc)

May be we could first try to save to the folder inside node_modules
and if it fails fallback to %USERPROFILE%\.local\win-ca\lib
or something like that.

Will it suit you?

from win-ca.

Thanks for the quick response.

Yes I like the fact that the tool is simple to use as all you need is “require” it. Putting them in a fall back location would definitely works for me.

from win-ca.

Well, try

npm i win-ca@beta

from win-ca.

I think I can get it working for my case - it took longer then expected but I am on top of it.

Thanks for the change!

from win-ca.

I just tested on my machine and on the client machines and both work like a charm!

from win-ca.

Great! I plan to release new version tomorrow.

from win-ca.