Re: [BUGS] BUG #14543: libpq fails with group readable ssl keys - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: [BUGS] BUG #14543: libpq fails with group readable ssl keys
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Msg-id CAB7nPqTHHHFXbffdx97ZmbaPH-OSRmW7ucQDy_f5uADAVpkMRg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to [BUGS] BUG #14543: libpq fails with group readable ssl keys  (postgres@freigeist.org)
Responses Re: [BUGS] BUG #14543: libpq fails with group readable ssl keys  (Johannes Ziemke <fish@freigeist.org>)
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:43 AM,  <postgres@freigeist.org> wrote:
> looks like libpq checks if a ssl key is group or world readable and aborts
> if that's the case:

This is not a bug.

> # pg_basebackup -R -d
>
'postgres://replication@db-rw?sslmode=verify-ca&sslcert=/etc/ssl/private/default.pem&sslkey=/etc/ssl/private/default-key.pem&sslrootcert=/etc/ssl/ca-trusted.pem'
> -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.5/main --xlog-method=stream
> pg_basebackup: could not connect to server: private key file
> "/etc/ssl/private/default-key.pem" has group or world access; permissions
> should be u=rw (0600) or less

This behavior comes from commit eb7afc14 of 2002.

> While I agree this is reasonable to do if the key is world readable, it's
> perfectly fine to make a SSL key group readable to share it with multiple
> users on the same system.

I don't disagree with that. Now it is hard to justify a change for a
14-year-old behavior as many users may rely on the current way things
work as well.

> Ubuntu (and probably most other distributions) even creates a group for
> exactly this scenario:

Hard to assume. Fedora does not have such a patch:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/postgresql.git/tree/.
Archlinux also shows none:
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/postgresql.
-- 
Michael


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