07-29-2009
go for the cert
King,
I have a Sol9 certification. But I have been a SysAdmin for more than 10 years and on a few flavors of Unix systems most notably HPUX 11.0 and Solaris 8/9 and some 10.
IMO getting certified requires some work. Job experience is not a must but if you have some experience it will help because "doing is believing" LOL. I really od not see the need to get cert for the heck of it but if you are going to pursue work as a sysadm then a cert will help you get started but you will be on the bottom of the totem pole whether you have the cert or not. Just be prepared to work on the bottom and working up. I see no reason not to get certified.
Also watch SUN's website closely in the promotions links. They often offer exams where when you buy one exam you can retake for free but its offered like 1 or 2 times a year and offered in a 1 or 2 month timeframe. So you have to catch this promotion. Not too bad to get a free retake within a year of the first failure.
I should caution you that getting this Sol10 cert if not going to land you any jobs...you'd do as well as without the cert. Experience counts as far as sysadm goes...
Good luck!
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ne_ssl_trust_default_ca
NE_SSL_TRUST_CERT(3) neon API reference NE_SSL_TRUST_CERT(3)
NAME
ne_ssl_trust_cert, ne_ssl_trust_default_ca - functions to indicate that certificates are trusted
SYNOPSIS
#include <ne_session.h>
void ne_ssl_trust_cert(ne_session *session, const ne_ssl_certificate *cert);
void ne_ssl_trust_default_ca(ne_session *session);
DESCRIPTION
To indicate that a given certificate is trusted by the user, the certificate object can be passed to ne_ssl_trust_cert. The certificate
object is duplicated internally and can subsequently be destroyed.
The SSL library in use by neon may include a default set of CA certificates; calling the ne_ssl_trust_default_ca function will indicate
that these CAs are trusted by the user.
EXAMPLES
Load the CA certificate stored in /path/to/cacert.pem:
ne_session *sess = ne_session_create(...);
ne_ssl_certificate *cert = ne_ssl_cert_read("/path/to/cacert.pem");
if (cert) {
ne_ssl_trust_cert(sess, cert);
ne_ssl_cert_free(cert);
} else {
printf("Could not load CA cert: %s
", ne_get_error(sess));
}
SEE ALSO
ne_ssl_cert_read, ne_ssl_cert_import, ne_ssl_cert_free
AUTHOR
Joe Orton <neon@lists.manyfish.co.uk>
Author.
COPYRIGHT
neon 0.28.4 25 February 2009 NE_SSL_TRUST_CERT(3)