[strongSwan] Validating Local Host Own Certificate

[Jafar Al-Gharaibeh]

Hi,

    I have noticed that when configuring the local certificate in a 
connection via :

    leftcert=cert.pem

   The certificate is loaded and trusted without validating it through 
CA/trust-chains. Is this behavior documented anywhere? digging through 
documentation I only found old email references  to this. Is this the 
expected behavior? Is there a way to force one's own certificate 
validation when loaded/used? i.e/ cert.pem above has to be validated 
through a CA tustchain.

Thanks,
Jafar