On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:24:30 pm Yang Zhang wrote:
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>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:06:40 pm Yang Zhang wrote:
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>> >> How do I prevent accidental non-SSL connections (at least to specific
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>> >> hosts) when connecting via psql? Is there any configuration for this?
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>> >> Thanks.
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>> >
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>> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/auth-pg-hba-conf.html
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>> > hostssl
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>> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/libpq-connect.html
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>> > sslmode
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>> I'm aware of sslmode and hostssl - the threat model I'm asking about
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>> is the client getting MITM'd because the user forgets to specify `psql
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>> sslmode=verify-full`.
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> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/ssl-tcp.html
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> 17.8.1. Using client certificates
Client certs are only for client authentication; I'm interested in
mandatory server authentication.
