Re: SSL (patch 9)

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

    http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

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Bear Giles wrote:
> SSL patch that adds support for optional client certificates.
>
> If the user has certificates in $HOME/.postgresql/postgresql.crt
> and $HOME/.postgresql/postgresql.key exist, they are provided
> to the server.  The certificate used to sign this cert must be
> known to the server, in $DataDir/root.crt.  If successful, the
> cert's "common name" is logged.
>
> Client certs are not used for authentication, but they could be
> via the port->peer (X509 *), port->peer_dn (char *) or
> port->peer_cn (char *) fields.  Or any other function could be
> used, e.g., many sites like the issuer + serial number hash.
>
> Bear

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