regarding ssl certificates

[mick crane via dovecot]

Excuse dopey question.
I'm not exactly clear about certificates.
Apache2 default install has this snake oil certificate
Can make a new one for apache
Can make one for dovecot
Can make one for ssl
Is there supposed to be the one (self signed ) certificate pair in one 
place for the machine that each process hands out ?

Can they be moved to another machine ?

mick

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Re: two lots of dovecot files

[mick crane via dovecot]

On 2019-03-04 17:25, Felix Zielcke via dovecot wrote:

Am Montag, den 04.03.2019, 15:27 + schrieb mick crane via dovecot:

hello
is debian buster
I have 2 sets of dovecot files, I don't know why.
one in /etc/dovecot and one in /usr/share/dovecot
they are not links they are actual files.
if I rename /etc/dovecot and restart service then I get connection
refused when use roundcube.
Some time ago my roundcube installation stopped working properly for
the
web configuration options.
Should I have these 2 directories or just want the one ?
If want only one it's likely then that I configure wrong file with
same
name when I thought my ssl certificate has expired.
Is OK to delete /etc/dovecot and check configuration in
/usr/share/dovecot ?



Hi,

that's just the Debian packaging. In /usr/share/dovecot are the
original unmodified files for reference. They're not used at all for
the running dovecot.
The active ones, which you need to modify and get used by dovecot are
in /etc/dovecot.
There's no point to delete the files in /usr/share/dovecot because on
the next update of the dovecot packages they get installed again.

Regards
Felix

Ah right, I think I've been changing the /usr/share files.

thanks.
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two lots of dovecot files

[mick crane via dovecot]

hello
is debian buster
I have 2 sets of dovecot files, I don't know why.
one in /etc/dovecot and one in /usr/share/dovecot
they are not links they are actual files.
if I rename /etc/dovecot and restart service then I get connection 
refused when use roundcube.
Some time ago my roundcube installation stopped working properly for the 
web configuration options.

Should I have these 2 directories or just want the one ?
If want only one it's likely then that I configure wrong file with same 
name when I thought my ssl certificate has expired.
Is OK to delete /etc/dovecot and check configuration in 
/usr/share/dovecot ?


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