/etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem erased by OpenSuse's update mechanism

[Nick Edwards]

This directory in later times is where more and more distros are
putting system wide server CA type certs, most distros are moving to
this path, so the package maintainer should fix their script, maybe to
/etc/ssl/private or such.


On 2/16/15, Wolfgang Gross <WGross at uni-hd.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is not a genuine Dovecot bug, more a nuisance.
> It applies to OpenSuse 13.2 but maybe also to other Linux's.
>
> The standard installation of Dovecot (especially 10-ssl.conf) places the
> certificate dovecot.pem in /etc/ssl/certs.
> Sometimes during updates does OpenSuse renew all certificates in
> /etc/ssl/certs
> and erases dovecot.pem. This blocks further access to the mailbox.
>
> I found a similar report here:
>   https://bbs.archlinux.de/viewtopic.php?id=27288
>
> Workaround: Move dovecot.pem to another directory and change 10-ssl.conf
> accordingly.
>
> Regards
>
> Wolfgang Gross
>
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