Re: PKI/SSL Client/Server Certificate Authentication

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:19:38PM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> In short, it's a deterrent to hackers and a convenience to admins.  But we

Not just that.  Unless something big has changed when I wasn't
looking, the jdbc driver can't use the .pgpass mechanism yet; but it
_can_ use SSL, except that it doesn't have the ability to validate
via certs.  So there'd be another potential use case for this.  I
briefly toyed with trying to find someone to implement cert-based
authentication, but found I had other things more pressing (so the
TODO fell off the end of my list).

A

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