Hi,
I posted the following to pgadmin-hackers several weeks ago but have not
received any replies. Perhaps I posted to the wrong list, and hopefully
pgadmin-support is the right one. Has any once else experienced the
same issue?
Thanks,
Gabriel
On 08/03/2015 04:37 PM, "Gabriel E. Sánchez Martínez" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having an issue with pgAdmin3 that may be a bug, and wanted to
> share it with you to see what you think. I am running pgAdmin3 1.18.1
> on Ubuntu 14.04. There are several server connections configured: one
> to the local database, and three others to remote servers. All the
> remote servers require client certificate authentication.
>
> Right after opening pgAdmin, I can connect to any of the databases and
> use them as expected. If I connect to the second server (i.e. the
> first remote one), I can use that server without issues, but I cannot
> establish a connection to the third or fourth servers: I get an error
> saying "SSL Error: certificate verify failed". I can connect to the
> local database without problems. In order to connect to the third and
> fourth servers, I have to restart pgAdmin.
>
> After restarting pgAdmin, I can connect to the third and fourth
> servers in any order. (The third and fourth servers share the same
> root certificate server.) I can also connect to the first (local) and
> second (first remote) servers. However, once I've connected to the
> second server, no new connections to the third and fourth servers can
> be established. This includes clicking on a disconnected database in
> those servers, trying to open a query editor, or connecting after
> disconnecting. The error dialog has the same message.
>
> The symptoms suggest that something related to the root certificate is
> being stored by pgAdmin once a connection is established. It is
> strange that the order of the servers seems to matter. Possibly the
> CA certificate of the first server is the one that blocks connections
> to servers requiring SSL appearing later on the list if they use a
> different CA certificate, but that has yet to be verified.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Gabriel
>
