Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] Allow to redefine ciphers list for OpenSSL

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Tomas Hozza <address@hidden> writes:

>> What do you think about extending --secure-protocol and having a runtime
>> option instead of a compile time option ? Users could set the system wide
>> default value in /etc/wgetrc and people are able to override it through
>> ~/.wgetrc or --secure-protocol.
>
> Hi Tim.
>
> I'm afraid this is not suitable for us. We need to be able to define the
> policy somewhere in /etc, where the user is not able to change it (only
> the system administrator).
>
> Also the main intention to have a single place to set the policy for all
> system components, therefore wgetrc is not the right place for us.
>
> Regards,

how would the policy defined in /etc be used by wget?  Is wget going to
be recompiled if the policy is changed by root?

Thanks,
Giuseppe