Re: ssl passphrase callback

On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 9:02 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > Well that pretty much brings us back to the patch as submitted :-)
>
> Yeah, pretty nearly.  Taking a quick look over the v3 patch, my
> only quibble is that it doesn't provide any convenient way for the
> external module to make decisions about how to interact with
> ssl_passphrase_command --- in particular, if it would like to allow
> that to take precedence, it can't because there's no way for it to
> invoke the static function ssl_external_passwd_cb.
>
> But rather than expose that globally, maybe the theory ought to be
> "set up the state as we'd normally do, then let loadable modules
> choose to override it".  So I'm tempted to propose a hook function
> with the signature
>
> void openssl_tls_init_hook(SSL_CTX *context, bool isServerStart);
>
> and invoke that somewhere in be_tls_init --- maybe fairly late,
> so that it can override other settings if it wants, not only the
> SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb setting.
>


Not sure if the placement is what you want, but maybe something like this?

cheers

andrew


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