> > Yet when I try to connect with old client applications using SSL I get
> > the following error reported in the server log:
> > "could not accept SSL connection: peer did not return a certificate"
> Are you attempting to use SSL certificates for client authentication? It
> sounds like you have a root.crt in your PGDATA directory, but your clients
> are not setup to provide a certificate upon connection and thus the
> server is denying access.
Hi Jeff, you are spot on, Thanks.
I just set up the new server for SSL as the old 7.4.x server was.
For some reason, with a root.crt present, 7.4.x distributions do not enforce
receiving a client certificate so I never got this problem before.
Thanks again
regards
Donald Fraser.