[CentOS] dovecot option PROFILE=SYSTEM

Wed Jan 6 15:08:48 UTC 2021
david <david at daku.org>

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 at daku.org> 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