[strongSwan] plugins, default enabled or not

[Noel Kuntze]

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Hello Cindy,

What do you mean with 'Enable those two options'? Are you referring to
the files in '/etc/strongswan.d/'? Those packets just provide the plugins.
Those do not enable them. If you use modular loading[1] and not a custom
'charon.load' [2], you need to enable the modules in their respective configuration
file in '/etc/strongswan.d/' to make them get loaded. If you do not use modular loading [1]
and do not use a custom 'charon.load' [2] line, the plugins get loaded automaticly.
If you do not use modular loading [1] and use a custom 'charon.load' line, you need
to add those plugins to the 'charon.load' line, if they are not already included in it.

The plugin list [3], as described by the table header, describes what plugins are
enabled by default ('x' in the column with title 'E') in the configuration script and
hence are built by default if you don't disable them,
what plugins are stable ('s' in the column with title 'S'), what plugins are in developement ('d'
in the column with title 'S') and what plugins are experimental ('e' in the column with title 'S').

The configuration script in the sources configure the sources to build all the executables, documentation and
shared objects (libraries) that you want. The configuration in '/etc/strongswan.d/' and '/etc/strongswan.conf'
offer to option to basicly enable, disable and configure the plugins after you already installed strongSwan.

I hope this helped.

[1] Have charon.load_modular not set or set to 'no' in '/etc/strongswan.conf'
[2] The 'charon.load' line is configured in '/etc/strongswan.conf' and contains the
     plugins that are to be loaded by charon.
[3] https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/PluginList

Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Regards,
Noel Kuntze

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Am 10.12.2014 um 21:39 schrieb Cindy Moore:
> So I'm a little confused.  I know that there's a list of automatically
> enabled options and so on, as detailed here
> https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/PluginList
>
>
> On ubuntu, the following
> apt-get install strongswan strongswan-plugin-ldap strongswan-plugin-xauth-noauth
>
> would still not enable those two options (that are listed only as s
> for stable, but not E for default enabled)?  Then why even offer
> those?  What am I missing here?
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