Re: libpq 8.4 beta1: $PGHOST complains about missing root.crt - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Martin Pitt
Subject Re: libpq 8.4 beta1: $PGHOST complains about missing root.crt
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Msg-id 20090410232809.GO3775@piware.de
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In response to Re: libpq 8.4 beta1: $PGHOST complains about missing root.crt  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: libpq 8.4 beta1: $PGHOST complains about missing root.crt  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane [2009-04-10 19:01 -0400]:
> This seems a bit handwavy --- there's a difference between the machine's
> own cert and what it thinks is a root cert.

Sure.

> How do you deal with that?  If the root cert is real, how do you put
> in self-signed server certs?

I'm afraid I don't understand. If an admin replaces the default
snakeoil cert with a real one which he got signed by a CA, then of
course he would replace the standard system SSL cert (which all the
servers default to, and which is initially the snakeoil one) with the
"good" certificate. I don't see a reason why an admin would replace a
self-signed cert with another self-signed cert?

Thanks,

Martin

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