On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Rob Abernethy IV" <abernethy@dynedge.com> writes:
> > I cannot get the postmaster to start up in SSL mode. I receive the following
> > error:
> > bad permissions on private key file (/var/lib/pgsql/data/server.key)
>
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 3223 Dec 18 17:10 server.crt
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 887 Dec 18 17:10 server.key
>
> I think it wants the private key file to be mode 600 or less --- a
> world-readable private key isn't very private, hmm?
Is this a good candidate for error message improvement?