Package: prosody
Version: 0.9.7-2+deb8u3
Severity: normal

Hello,

thank you for maintaining prosody!

Currently prosody is added to group ssl-cert so it can read the snakeoil
private certificate.

I don't know why should prosody need to use the snakeoil certificate at all now
that we have letsencrypt (see #767741); however I am rather uneasy at the idea
that my XMPP server can access whatever is in /etc/ssl/private.

Since snakeoil certificates are symlinked into /etc/prosody/certs anyway, would
it be possible, instead of adding prosody to the group ssl-cert, to copy the
snakeoil certificates in /etc/prosody/certs during postinst, and set their
permissions to be read by prosody?

That way prosody could access the snakeoil certificates only.


Enrico

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