So I have the certificate of our CA here at work. I want to install it as a trusted root on the computers from which our remote users work.

Now sending them the certificate and having them do it is a bit out of their reach. They are really really really technology-challenged.

I am writing this small java app that is basically just a simple GUI with a few very easy to use buttons. The thing autoruns off a cd and then presents the user with options like "e-mail" or "remote desktop". They click the button, and it loads their webmail or connects to our term servers.

The idea is to make it stupid easy for the user.

Now getting back to the certificate issue. Both the webmail server and the terminal server use SSL encryption. In order for them to connect to the terminal server they must have our CA in their trusted roots.

So my question is: Is there some way to have Java install the certificate in the background with out user interaction (or at the very least, minimal user interaction).

9/23/2005 9:52:04 AM

could you not just tell them to say yes and have a script load a page that pushes the certificate?

9/23/2005 10:51:58 AM