Re: SSL Mode

Dan Langille wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > "Rob Abernethy IV" <abernethy@dynedge.com> writes:
> > > I cannot get the postmaster to start up in SSL mode.  I receive the following
> > > error:
> > > bad permissions on private key file (/var/lib/pgsql/data/server.key)
> >
> > > -rw-r--r--    1 postgres postgres     3223 Dec 18 17:10 server.crt
> > > -rw-r--r--    1 postgres postgres      887 Dec 18 17:10 server.key
> >
> > I think it wants the private key file to be mode 600 or less --- a
> > world-readable private key isn't very private, hmm?
>
> Is this a good candidate for error message improvement?

Yes.  I will take care of it.

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