Re: Client certificate authentication - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Client certificate authentication
Date
Msg-id 20081117123123.GF4291@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Client certificate authentication  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Client certificate authentication  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Re: Client certificate authentication  ("Alex Hunsaker" <badalex@gmail.com>)
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Magnus Hagander escribió:
> On 16 nov 2008, at 01.00, "Alex Hunsaker" <badalex@gmail.com> wrote:

>> My only concern is there is no way to specify the USER_CERT_FILE for
>> libpq.  So if for example I have two users that I want to use cert
>> authentication for I really have to have to users on the system (or i
>> guess maybe you could fake HOME=... psql -U other_user).   Or am I
>
> While not directly related to this patch, that is a very good point. We 
> have PGSSLKEY but not PGSSLCERT. Could certainly be worth adding.

FWIW I think this was part of the patch submitted by Mark Woodward; see
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFest_2008-07, and
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20080801203157.GL4321@alvh.no-ip.org

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