Re: FW: Setting up SSL for postgre

Mark Williams <markwillimas@gmail.com> writes:

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> From: Mark Williams <markwillimas@gmail.com> 
> Sent: 25 August 2018 18:14
> To: 'Wim Bertels' <wim.bertels@ucll.be>
> Subject: RE: Setting up SSL for postgre
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> Hi Wim,
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> I don't understand. If I don't include the password option, the connection
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> I am connecting via PGAdmin with the same user ie postgres.
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I suspect Wim was referring to private certificate authentication rather
than connections over SSL - use the same basic technologies, but for
different goals.

While it may or may not be useful, I believe that recent versions of
Debian actually come with SSL connections enabled by default (using self
signed cert). Might provide the example you need?

Tim

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Tim Cross