Re: Client certificate authentication

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:31, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander escribió:
>> On 16 nov 2008, at 01.00, "Alex Hunsaker" <badalex@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> My only concern is there is no way to specify the USER_CERT_FILE for
>>> libpq.  So if for example I have two users that I want to use cert
>>> authentication for I really have to have to users on the system (or i
>>> guess maybe you could fake HOME=... psql -U other_user).   Or am I
>>
>> While not directly related to this patch, that is a very good point. We
>> have PGSSLKEY but not PGSSLCERT. Could certainly be worth adding.
>
> FWIW I think this was part of the patch submitted by Mark Woodward; see
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFest_2008-07, and
> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20080801203157.GL4321@alvh.no-ip.org

Cool! I missed this one as well, too bad it does not look like it ever
got resubmitted for this feast :(

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