Randy McMurchy wrote:
Jim Gifford wrote these words on 06/04/05 01:20 CST:
BLFS has stunnel listed as optional, but the way you have things
configured, you made it dependent. If it was truly optional, you would
have a non-stunnel swat configuration also.
My previous reply was not complete.
You are correct, Jim, that there should probably be a non-Stunnel
configuration to run SWAT.
Could you please provide a patch to the XML, seeing how you
brought it up?
Will take care of it.
I added the Stunnel stuff because it was BZ'd that not encrypting
access to SWAT was a major security breach.
I never thought about the fact that we advise to use Stunnel, but
it is an optional dependency.
Again, like the rsync instructions, I'll have to defer to Bruce's
judgment. It is not required to build, yet we provide instructions
to use it during the configuration. To me, it is as you say, now a
required dependency, however, as you correctly point out, it isn't.
Why add more dependencies then needed, the book should just provide the
base instructions
that produce a working piece of software. If they want more security and
more features,
that's the builders responsibility. As far as support, we would only
support the base instructions,
that's why there are support forums for a lot of these packages.
Again it's my 2 cents worth.
Bruce?
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