Re: SSL connections

On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 21:16 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > One of my customer told me that another PostgreSQL admin tool requires
> > to enter sslcert, sslkey, sslrootcert, and sslcrl to try an SSL
> > connection. Is this true? do we have to require that all fields are
> > filled? reading the documentation, I think no. There are default values
> > for each of them, so we don't need to put each field in the connection
> > packet. But I may be wrong. Anyone with more knowledge than me on this
> > issue?
>
> No you don't need to fill them in to use SSL. Even certificate based
> auth doesn't *require* you to set any of those values.
>

Great, thanks :)


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