Re: Force SSL / username combination - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Koen Vermeer
Subject Re: Force SSL / username combination
Date
Msg-id 1184251476.5451.7.camel@localhost
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In response to Force SSL / username combination  (Koen Vermeer <koen@vermeer.tv>)
Responses Re: Force SSL / username combination
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On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 09:05 +0200, Koen Vermeer wrote:
> I want to set up a database server that is connected to the Internet.
> Therefore, I want my users to use SSL/TLS certificates. I provide these
> certificates to the users, so I can control the information that is in
> there. Now, I know that I can set up PostgreSQL to use SSL/TLS, but I am
> unable to find a way to map a SSL/TLS certificate to a specific user.
> Is there a way to set this up? If so, how?
> Thanks for any pointers!

Despite the somewhat less than overwhelming number of replies, I think I
found a way around this. Just in case someone else may be looking for
this:

In contrib, there is something called 'sslinfo', which provides details
of the X509 certificate that was used by the client for the session.
Based on that, I can validate whether a username indeed matches the
certificate, or make sure a user can only get data matching some field
in the table to a field of the certificate, which probably is all I
need.

Koen


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