1331867 - nss db --list-certs creates db

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(NSS :: Tools, defect)

Description

[Franziskus Kiefer [:franziskus]]

Calling nss db --list-certs creates a database in the the directory it's looking. That's unexpected as the command says list-certs. I'd expect the command to warn me that there is no db in the provided path.

Comment 1

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

How about adding a "nss db --create --path /foo/bar" command? And never creating a DB automatically? That seems like a reasonable behavior.

Comment 2

[stefan.gschiel.sg]

Ok will make a patch for it.
The database files are created by NSS_Initialize, I think.
And for the nss db --list-certs I could use NSS_Initialize with NSS_INIT_READONLY.

Or is there some better function than NSS_Initialize for just creating the database files?

Comment 3

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

(In reply to stefan.gschiel.sg from comment #2)
> And for the nss db --list-certs I could use NSS_Initialize with
> NSS_INIT_READONLY.

Sounds good.

> Or is there some better function than NSS_Initialize for just creating the
> database files?

Unfortunately not. At least I'm somewhat sure there aren't.

Comment 4

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/abef300e6aeb