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How to deal with self-signed certificates in household devices
Devices come to my house with pre-installed self-signed certificates that apply to their management web UIs. Chrome issues a dire warning and requires extra clicks every time I visit one.
My primary system for communicating with these puppies (a NAS, two printers and some switches) is a Mac.
I've dabbled with Let's Encrypt certificates, but their relatively short lifetimes makes this painful, since none of them officially support any way to automatically update the certs.
Is there anything resembling a consensus on the least bad solution here? I can imagine:
- Adding the self-signed certs to the MacOS trust store.
- Using a different browser
- just living with the warning interstitial screens.
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