Re: SSL connections

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of my customer told me that another PostgreSQL admin tool requires
> to enter sslcert, sslkey, sslrootcert, and sslcrl to try an SSL
> connection. Is this true? do we have to require that all fields are
> filled? reading the documentation, I think no. There are default values
> for each of them, so we don't need to put each field in the connection
> packet. But I may be wrong. Anyone with more knowledge than me on this
> issue?

No you don't need to fill them in to use SSL. Even certificate based
auth doesn't *require* you to set any of those values.


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