James B. Byrne wrote:
> PostgreSQL 8.1.9
> CentOS 4.5
>
> I have setup postgresql to use ssl and have configured and restarted the
> service without error. I am connecting a web app from a remote httpd host
> and I would like to verify that the connection between these two machines
> is indeed employing ssl for the application in question.
just enforce hostssl in your pg_hba.conf and nothing else. If you can
connect, you are good :)
Joshua D. Drake
>
> I can connect from the httpd host to the postgresql host using psql and it
> shows that an ssl connection with a 256 bit key is in use. However, I
> would like to verify that the web app is also using ssl and I cannot seem
> to find any logging setting or other mechanism that will explicitly state
> that the connection made by this application is using ssl.
>
> Is there some confidence check that I can invoke via a log setting or
> something else to have the postgresql server state with certainty that the
> connection between the app host and the db host is via ssl?
>
> I subscribe to the digest version so the favour of a direct reply in
> addition to any sent to this list is requested
>
>
> Regards,
>
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