Re: Trust intermediate CA for client certificates

On 12/02/2013 02:17 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@gmail.com> writes:
>> Yes.  And the problem is that there is no way to prevent OpenSSL from
>> accepting intermediate certificates supplied by the client.  As a
>> result, the server cannot accept client certificates signed by one
>> intermediate CA without also accepting *any* client certificate that can
>> present a chain back to the root CA.
> 
> Isn't that sort of the point?
> 

I'm not sure what you're asking.  The desired behavior (IMO) would be to
accept client certificates signed by some intermediate CAs without
accepting any client certificate that can present a chain back to the
trusted root.  This is currently not possible, mainly due to the way
that OpenSSL works.

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