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Issue created by <a href="https://gitlab.com/dreibh">Thomas Dreibholz</a>: <a href="https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/work_items/1916">#1916</a>
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<h2 id="user-content-description-of-problem" dir="auto" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;" align="initial">Description of problem:<a href="#description-of-problem" aria-label="Link to heading 'Description of problem:'" data-heading-content="Description of problem:" class="anchor" style="margin-top: 0px;"></a>
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<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;" align="initial">I am testing with platform-independent scripts from the <a href="https://www.nntb.no/~dreibh/system-tools/#x.509-tools" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px;">X.509-Tools</a> (Git: <a href="https://github.com/dreibh/system-tools" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://github.com/dreibh/system-tools</a>), which tests CA hierarchies and certificates under different operating systems (multiple Linux distributions, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS). Background is to make sure that the CA/certificate setup works on all systems. Currently, I am experimenting with Solaris (<a href="https://www.openindiana.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">OpenIndiana</a>, 2026.04 version).</p>
<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;" align="initial">Under Solaris, <code style='font-size: 90%; color: #18171d; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #ececef; border-radius: .25rem; margin-top: 0px; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: break-spaces; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; word-break: keep-all; padding: 0.125rem 0.25rem;'>certtool --verify</code> fails:</p>
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<pre class="code highlight js-syntax-highlight language-plaintext" v-pre="true" style='display: block; font-size: 14px; color: #3a383f; line-height: 1.6em; overflow-x: auto; border-radius: .25rem; position: relative; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #fbfafd; margin: 0px 0 1rem; padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #dcdcde;'><code style='font-size: inherit; color: inherit; word-wrap: normal; word-break: keep-all; background-color: inherit; border-radius: .25rem; white-space: pre; margin-top: 0px; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; overflow-wrap: normal; padding: unset;'><span id="LC1" class="line" data-lang="plaintext" style="margin-top: 0px;">$ certtool --verify --verify-profile=future --load-ca-certificate=PATH_TO_CA.crt --infile=PATH_TO_USER_CERT.crt</span>
<span id="LC2" class="line" data-lang="plaintext">certtool: ambiguous option -- verify</span></code></pre>
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<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;" align="initial">The same certtool call works fine under Linux, the BSDs, and MacOS.</p>
<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;" align="initial">The problems seems to be the strict handling of long options under Solaris: certtool has multiple options with prefix <code style='font-size: 90%; color: #18171d; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #ececef; border-radius: .25rem; margin-top: 0px; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: break-spaces; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; word-break: keep-all; padding: 0.125rem 0.25rem;'>--verify</code>:</p>
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<pre class="code highlight js-syntax-highlight language-plaintext" v-pre="true" style='display: block; font-size: 14px; color: #3a383f; line-height: 1.6em; overflow-x: auto; border-radius: .25rem; position: relative; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #fbfafd; margin: 0px 0 1rem; padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #dcdcde;'><code style='font-size: inherit; color: inherit; word-wrap: normal; word-break: keep-all; background-color: inherit; border-radius: .25rem; white-space: pre; margin-top: 0px; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; overflow-wrap: normal; padding: unset;'><span id="LC1" class="line" data-lang="plaintext" style="margin-top: 0px;"> -e, --verify-chain Verify a PEM encoded certificate chain</span>
<span id="LC2" class="line" data-lang="plaintext"> --verify Verify a PEM encoded certificate (chain) against a trusted set</span>
<span id="LC3" class="line" data-lang="plaintext"> --verify-hostname=str Specify a hostname to be used for certificate chain verification</span>
<span id="LC4" class="line" data-lang="plaintext"> --verify-email=str Specify a email to be used for certificate chain verification</span>
<span id="LC5" class="line" data-lang="plaintext"> - prohibits the option 'verify-hostname'</span>
<span id="LC6" class="line" data-lang="plaintext"> --verify-purpose=str Specify a purpose OID to be used for certificate chain verification</span>
<span id="LC7" class="line" data-lang="plaintext"> --verify-allow-broken Allow broken algorithms, such as MD5 for verification</span>
<span id="LC8" class="line" data-lang="plaintext"> --verify-profile=str Specify a security level profile to be used for verification</span></code></pre>
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<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;" align="initial">A solution could be to give the option a different name (e.g. <code style='font-size: 90%; color: #18171d; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #ececef; border-radius: .25rem; margin-top: 0px; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: break-spaces; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; word-break: keep-all; padding: 0.125rem 0.25rem;'>--verify-with-ca</code>), or a short option (<code style='font-size: 90%; color: #18171d; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #ececef; border-radius: .25rem; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: break-spaces; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; word-break: keep-all; padding: 0.125rem 0.25rem;'>-E</code>). At the moment, it is not possible to verify a chain with a CA certificate under Solaris with GnuTLS certtool, i.e. an important feature is broken under Solaris.</p>
<h2 id="user-content-version-of-gnutls-used" dir="auto" style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;" align="initial">Version of gnutls used:<a href="#version-of-gnutls-used" aria-label="Link to heading 'Version of gnutls used:'" data-heading-content="Version of gnutls used:" class="anchor" style="margin-top: 0px;"></a>
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<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;" align="initial">3.8.13</p>
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<pre class="code highlight js-syntax-highlight language-plaintext" v-pre="true" style='display: block; font-size: 14px; color: #3a383f; line-height: 1.6em; overflow-x: auto; border-radius: .25rem; position: relative; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #fbfafd; margin: 0px 0 1rem; padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #dcdcde;'><code style='font-size: inherit; color: inherit; word-wrap: normal; word-break: keep-all; background-color: inherit; border-radius: .25rem; white-space: pre; margin-top: 0px; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; overflow-wrap: normal; padding: unset;'><span id="LC1" class="line" data-lang="plaintext" style="margin-top: 0px;">(x509) nornetpp@openindiana:~/src/system-tools/src/X509$ uname -a</span>
<span id="LC2" class="line" data-lang="plaintext">SunOS openindiana 5.11 illumos-2b7388bd44 i86pc i386 i86pc</span>
<span id="LC3" class="line" data-lang="plaintext">(x509) nornetpp@openindiana:~/src/system-tools/src/X509$ certtool --version</span>
<span id="LC4" class="line" data-lang="plaintext">certtool 3.8.13</span></code></pre>
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<h2 id="user-content-distributor-of-gnutls-eg-ubuntu-fedora-rhel" dir="auto" style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;" align="initial">Distributor of gnutls (e.g., Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL)<a href="#distributor-of-gnutls-eg-ubuntu-fedora-rhel" aria-label="Link to heading 'Distributor of gnutls (e.g., Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL)'" data-heading-content="Distributor of gnutls (e.g., Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL)" class="anchor" style="margin-top: 0px;"></a>
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<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;" align="initial">OpenIndiana</p>
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<pre class="code highlight js-syntax-highlight language-plaintext" v-pre="true" style='display: block; font-size: 14px; color: #3a383f; line-height: 1.6em; overflow-x: auto; border-radius: .25rem; position: relative; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #fbfafd; margin: 0px 0 1rem; padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #dcdcde;'><code style='font-size: inherit; color: inherit; word-wrap: normal; word-break: keep-all; background-color: inherit; border-radius: .25rem; white-space: pre; margin-top: 0px; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; overflow-wrap: normal; padding: unset;'><span id="LC1" class="line" data-lang="plaintext" style="margin-top: 0px;">(x509) nornetpp@openindiana:~/src/system-tools/src/X509$ pkg publisher</span>
<span id="LC2" class="line" data-lang="plaintext">PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS P LOCATION</span>
<span id="LC3" class="line" data-lang="plaintext">openindiana.org origin online F https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/</span>
<span id="LC4" class="line" data-lang="plaintext">localhostoih origin online F http://sfe.opencsw.org/localhostoih/</span></code></pre>
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