Re: [ADMIN] Restart PostgreSQL service with SSL and private keypass phrase - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: [ADMIN] Restart PostgreSQL service with SSL and private keypass phrase
Date
Msg-id 1511187176.2615.22.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to [ADMIN] Restart PostgreSQL service with SSL and private key pass phrase  (sri bhav <sri_bhav@hotmail.com>)
Responses Newbie looking for good tutorial to install PL/java for postgres 9.6  (koffi BADOH <koff10@hotmail.com>)
List pgsql-admin
sri bhav wrote:
> I currently have PostgreSQL 9.5 installed on a Windows 10 machine. I have enabled SSL and configured key & crt files
withpass phrase.
 
> I know that I have to enter the PEM pass phrase everytime I try to restart.

> Since I installed Postgres as Windows service, running pg_ctl does not start my service.
> I see postgresql exe instances running in Task manager but my windows service never gets updated to Running.

> Per our security requirements, we cannot remove the PEM pass phrase, so how do I control the PostgreSQL
> service – start & restart with the pass phrase and without user interaction.

Change the security requirements.

What good is a password on a key if you have to store it on the machine
anyway to allow automatic start of the PostgreSQL server?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe


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