Re: dovecot option PROFILE=SYSTEM

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At 07:04 AM 1/6/2021, Paul Heinlein wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote:

--On Tuesday, January 05, 2021 7:40 PM -0800 david <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

In examining the file
  /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf
I see the text line:
  ssl_cipher_list = PROFILE=SYSTEM
Yet, I cannot find any documentation that explains what that causes,
where the values are stored.  I ask because I don't see that text line in
other installations of Dovecot 2.3 on other distros.  Can anyone point me
to an explanation?

The value of ssl_cipher_list is passed directly to OpenSSL's SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list():

<https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.2/man3/SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list.html>

See here for the meaning of PROFILE=SYSTEM:

<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CryptoPolicy#Scope>

Additionally, on your local system, look at

* the crypto-policies(7) man page
* the update-crypto-policies(8) man page
* the contents of the /etc/crypto-policies directory tree

Several applications use these policies, so it's worthwhile to take a look around.

--


If only there had been a comment in the file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf


Thanks for the guidance

David

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