Re: Disable OpenSSL

Marc Haber <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:27:33 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tools.sudo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 10:15:14AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
>You can already disable OpenSSL via the --disable-openssl configure
>option.

I will never remember that ./configure --help mentions that 
--disable-foo is always available. Sorry.

>OpenSSL is used to support TLS connections to the sudo log
>server, sudo_logsrvd.  This is mainly used for remote storage of
>sudo session logs.

Debian doesn't ship logsrvd. We don't have the capacity to support that.

>Sudo ships with its own sha2 functions and can use those if not
>using OpenSSL or gcrypt.

So Debian's sudo package will not even lose functionality if we build 
with --disable-openssl --disable-wolfssl?

Greetings
Marc

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