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authorTodd Lyons <tlyons@exim.org>2013-10-19 17:01:26 -0700
committerTodd Lyons <tlyons@exim.org>2013-10-22 04:54:30 -0700
commit2519e60d2f6124589a6a5b922dd9ae6bcb6f6588 (patch)
tree42466bd6e68ca69fd608f451fd1c1dd4dd30d35f /doc/doc-txt/NewStuff
parentb3e39dd7f0113be4aeeab16dbe18b9eef8c1caad (diff)
Bug 1400: Fix GnuTLS PKCS11 issues
Can disable PKCS11 in Makefile with AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build flag. Rename gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option to gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11. Update Changelog
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@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Version 4.82
8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
- 9. New global option "gnutls_enable_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
+ 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
@@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ Version 4.82
through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
unless this new option is set.
+ Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
+ so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
+ but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
+ Local/Makefile:
+
+ AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
+
10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
"acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments