Thread: RE: SSL Connections [doc PATCH]

RE: SSL Connections [doc PATCH]

From
Magnus Hagander
Date:
Thanks for that one!

Here is a patch to update the documentation based on this - this should make
it less dependant on the version of OpenSSL used.

//Magnus



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Kirkwood [mailto:matthew@hairy.beasts.org]
> Sent: den 21 december 2000 16:49
> To: Oliver Elphick
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] SSL Connections
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
> > To create a quick self-signed certificate, use the CA.pl script
> > included in OpenSSL:
> >
> > CA.pl -newcert
>
> Or you can do it manually:
>
> openssl req -new -text -out cert.req (you will have to enter
> a password)
> mv privkey.pem cert.pem.pw
> openssl rsa -in cert.pem.pw -out cert.pem  (this removes the password)
> openssl req -x509 -in cert.req -text -key cert.pem -out cert.cert
>
> Matthew.
>


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Re: RE: SSL Connections [doc PATCH]

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
I have applied an earlier patch to this file for SSL.  Could you check
the current tree and see how you like it?


> Thanks for that one!
>
> Here is a patch to update the documentation based on this - this should make
> it less dependant on the version of OpenSSL used.
>
> //Magnus
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthew Kirkwood [mailto:matthew@hairy.beasts.org]
> > Sent: den 21 december 2000 16:49
> > To: Oliver Elphick
> > Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] SSL Connections
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> >
> > > To create a quick self-signed certificate, use the CA.pl script
> > > included in OpenSSL:
> > >
> > > CA.pl -newcert
> >
> > Or you can do it manually:
> >
> > openssl req -new -text -out cert.req (you will have to enter
> > a password)
> > mv privkey.pem cert.pem.pw
> > openssl rsa -in cert.pem.pw -out cert.pem  (this removes the password)
> > openssl req -x509 -in cert.req -text -key cert.pem -out cert.cert
> >
> > Matthew.
> >
>

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