Bug 235035 – RHEL dovecot does not support the ssl_cipher_list config option

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Bug 235035 - RHEL dovecot does not support the ssl_cipher_list config option

Summary:	RHEL dovecot does not support the ssl_cipher_list config option

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 252031

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	dovecot (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4.4
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Tomas Janousek
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Reported:	2007-04-03 10:39 EDT by Chris Stankaitis
Modified:	2007-11-16 20:14 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2007-08-13 16:25:19 EDT
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Description Chris Stankaitis 2007-04-03 10:39:55 EDT

Description of problem:

For compliance reasons we need to stop all SSL/TLS devices from allowing low
encryption cipher negotiation.  Currently dovecot is throwing up a red-flag in
our scans by allowing low ciphers.  There is a config option as listed at:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig

Under the "SSL Settings" which lists the following config option:

ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW

placing this option the the /etc/dovecot config results in dovecot not being
able to start and throwing an error regarding that config line:

Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line
34: Unknown setting: ssl_cipher_list


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4.i386

Comment 1 Tomas Janousek 2007-04-04 12:26:53 EDT

This config option was added during the development of the 1.0 branch. I'd have
to backport it.

I'm not sure if we can include this feature addition in a RHEL minor update.
It's present in RHEL5 though.

Comment 2 Chris Stankaitis 2007-04-04 14:03:15 EDT

Thanks for the quick update, I hope they'll let you backport the feature in U6,
with more and more enterprises having to go through regular security
certification the addition of this feature to RHEL4 would make a lot of people
happy IMHO.

Comment 3 Tomas Janousek 2007-08-13 16:25:19 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 252031 ***

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