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Autor: Andreas Metzler
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Dla: 236478, fsmla, exim-users
Stare tematy: [Exim] Re: Bug#236478: Unexpected behaviour with empty tls_verify_certificates file/directory
Temat: [Exim] Unexpected behaviour with empty tls_verify_certificates file/directory
On 2004-03-06 "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <fsmla@???> wrote:
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> AFAICT the problem is in the way src/tls-gnu.c's tls_init() tries to set up
> the trusted CAs. Basically it just hands the job off to
> gnutls_certificate_set_x509_trust_file.


> That function returns GNUTLS_E_FILE_ERROR when passed the name of an empty
> file. Also strace-ing of test code (see attachment) suggests it isn't
> intended to handle a directory at all.


> Exim's documentation says `tls_verify_certificates' may point to a directory
> as well - presumably that was written based on the OpenSSL implementation.


Exim's documentation says *very* clearly that using a directory is
OpenSSL-only.
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