Re: BUG #4340: SECURITY: Is SSL Doing Anything? - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: BUG #4340: SECURITY: Is SSL Doing Anything?
Date
Msg-id 20080818215651.GD4454@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: BUG #4340: SECURITY: Is SSL Doing Anything?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Dan Kaminsky <dan@doxpara.com> writes:

> > >     Second, are you saying verify_peer doesn't do anything for
> > > authentication?  Are you sure about that?  There's really little reason
> > > otherwise for the call to exist.
> >
> > Er, we don't *have* a verify_peer callback.
>
> Uh, the user reported running Postgres 7.3 and we have improved SSL
> quite a bit since then so perhaps an upgrade and reading the current
> docs would help the user.

The code is identical in HEAD, according to a quick read I did last
week.

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