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author | Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> | 2020-01-25 11:12:24 -0700 |
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committer | Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> | 2020-01-25 11:12:24 -0700 |
commit | d75d2841dcf33329544fdc6e697f2402d55226d6 (patch) | |
tree | 3dc188171a86cade68951fd82ce3951122bf3199 /pith/pine.hlp | |
parent | 99948a254e2c2352547b962cbd1c23738e7af6b3 (diff) | |
download | alpine-d75d2841dcf33329544fdc6e697f2402d55226d6.tar.xz |
* New variable system-certs-path that allows users to indicate the
location of the directory where folders are located. In PC-Alpine
this must be C:\libressl\ssl\certs. The C: drive can be replaced by
the name of the drive where the binary and DLL files are located.
Diffstat (limited to 'pith/pine.hlp')
-rw-r--r-- | pith/pine.hlp | 58 |
1 files changed, 57 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pith/pine.hlp b/pith/pine.hlp index d81bd397..2dda8a13 100644 --- a/pith/pine.hlp +++ b/pith/pine.hlp @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ with help text for the config screen and the composer that didn't have any reasonable place to be called from. Dummy change to get revision in pine.hlp ============= h_revision ================= -Alpine Commit 395 2020-01-19 10:57:47 +Alpine Commit 396 2020-01-25 11:12:17 ============= h_news ================= <HTML> <HEAD> @@ -173,6 +173,19 @@ Apache web server. <H2>New in Alpine <!--#echo var="ALPINE_VERSION"--> (<!--#echo var="ALPINE_REVISION"-->)</H2> +This is a development version of Alpine. These enhancements are +released after the release of version +<!--#echo var="ALPINE_VERSION"--> (<!--#echo var="ALPINE_REVISION"-->). Please report +any problems you find with this release. New enhancements + +<UL> +<LI> New variable system-certs-path that allows users to indicate the location +of the directory where folders are located. In PC-Alpine this must be +C:\\libressl\\ssl\\certs. The C: drive can be replaced by the name of the drive +where the binary and DLL files are located. +</UL> + +<P> Version <!--#echo var="ALPINE_VERSION"--> (<!--#echo var="ALPINE_REVISION"-->) addresses bugs found in previous releases and has a few additions as well. @@ -22196,6 +22209,49 @@ by a colon (:) under UNIX and a semi-colon (;) under Windows. <P> <End of help on this topic> </BODY></HTML> +====== h_config_system_certs_path ====== +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_system-certs-path"--></TITLE> +</HEAD> +<BODY> +<H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_system-certs-path"--></H1> + +When Alpine is built to support secure connections to remote servers, a directory +must be reserved in the system to store certificates that will be used to validate +remote servers. This is normally configured at the time that Alpine is built, but +there might be circumstances under which a user might want to use a different +directory. For example, the directory might not be accessible, or has not been +updated and contains old certificates that have expired. + +<P> +When a user wants to override the default, this variable can be used to list +the directory where such certificates can be found. Alpine will use the first +directory in this list that exists in your system and can be accessed. This +allows for users to be able to use the same pinerc file in different systems. + +<P> +Example of values for this option might be: + +<PRE> +System Certs Path = /etc/ssl/certs + /usr/local/ssl/certs + C:\\libressl\\ssl\\certs +<PRE> + +<P> +In unix systems, the default location of the certificates for openssl can +be obtained by first executing the command + +<PRE>openssl version -d</PRE> + +and adding "/certs" to that value. In Windows the default location +for the certificates is C:\\libressl\\ssl\\certs. This value was set by LibreSSL +developers, and this option can be used to override this default. + +<P> +<End of help on this topic> +</BODY></HTML> ====== h_config_set_att_ansi ====== <HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>OPTION: Set printer to attached ansi printer</TITLE> |