Re: SSL over Unix-domain sockets - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Using the attached patch, SSL will act over Unix-domain sockets.  AFAICT,
> > this just works.  I didn't find a way to sniff a Unix-domain socket,
> > however.
> >
> > How should we proceed with this?
>
> I am confused by the shortness of this patch.  Right now pg_hba.conf
> has:
>
>     # host       DATABASE  USER  CIDR-ADDRESS  METHOD  [OPTION]
>     # hostssl    DATABASE  USER  CIDR-ADDRESS  METHOD  [OPTION]
>     # hostnossl  DATABASE  USER  CIDR-ADDRESS  METHOD  [OPTION]
>
> These are all for TCP connections.  How do we handle 'local' SSL
> connection specification?  Do we want to provide similar functionality
> for local connections?

Here is a patch that implements "localssl" as well.  It is quite simple.  
(Note that the code in hba.c is all copy and paste.)

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/