NSS Shared DB provides multiple things: * a list of CA certificates, for which bug #1647285 may provide an alternative solution * a list of security modules.
We have a use case for registering the OpenSC module system wide in order to be able to use PKCS#11 smart cards for authentication. I think this would require the NSS Shared DB in /etc/pki/nssdb -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to nss in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651451 Title: NSS Shared System Database non-functional Status in nss package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Ubuntu 16.04 appears to ship with libnsssysinit.so configured in /etc/pki/nssdb as it should be, but the library isn't *present*. So when applications such as Evolution attempt to open it, they fail: (evolution:20974): camel-WARNING **: Failed to initialize NSS SQL database in sql:/etc/pki/nssdb: NSS error -8126 For background, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/NSS_Shared_DB_And_LINUX and https://wiki.mozilla.org/NSS_Shared_DB To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nss/+bug/1651451/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
