mail/dovecot sodium not enabled

Carmel NY carmel_ny at outlook.com
Tue Dec 4 22:52:48 UTC 2018


On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 08:47:41 -0700, Adam Weinberger stated:

>On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 4:44 AM Larry Rosenman <ler at lerctr.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 10:51:16AM +0000, Carmel NY wrote:  
>> > On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:00:56 +0100, Matthias Fechner stated:
>> >  
>> > >Hi,
>> > >
>> > >I just saw that sodium is explicitely disabled:
>> > >CONFIGURE_ARGS= --localstatedir=/var \
>> > >                 --with-statedir=/var/db/dovecot \
>> > >                 --without-shadow \
>> > >                 --without-sodium \
>> > >
>> > >by disabling it, dovecot cannot use argon2 as hash for passwords which
>> > >is recommended for new deployments and developments.
>> > >
>> > >Is there a special reason why this was disabled?
>> > >
>> > >Thanks a lot.  
>> >
>> > I was just going to post a question regarding that myself.  
>> I've added a libsodium option in r486595.
>>
>> I inherited the port, and the previous maintainer had made that
>> decision.  
>
>It's all true! At the time, I couldn't get the NaCl support to compile
>and gave up. I'm glad to see it's working now!
>
># Adam

I see that the port was updated twice today. I have it installed and working
fine on a 11.2 amd64 machine. Thanks for the quick response.

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Carmel


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