Re: SSL problems

After I disable SSL option in postgresql.conf the server is starting
successfully.

Please, advise.

Jan-Peter Seifert wrote:
> Hello Andriy,
>
> the reply-to settings are a bit uncomfortable here. Your mail went only
> to me. But I'm not part of the developer or support team. It's strange
> that pg_ctl doesn't say anything else. Is there any system sniffer on
> FreeBSD like Process Monitor on Windows? I can only say that the docs
> worked for me (removed the password as described) on Ubuntu and Windows.
> I got complaints because of the rights on the certificates first. Does
> the server really start if SSL is deactivated in postgresql.conf again?
>
> Good luck,
>
> Peter
>
>> Yes of cause I compiled with OpenSSL support (FreeBSD port has this
>> option enabled by default). And I have all certificates with proper CA
>> signature, rest of applications (Postfix, Apache, etc.) work with this
>> certificates very well.
>>
>> And to make sure I ran the following command 'pg_config':
>>
>> $ pg_config
>> BINDIR = /usr/local/bin
>> DOCDIR = /usr/local/share/doc/postgresql
>> INCLUDEDIR = /usr/local/include
>> PKGINCLUDEDIR = /usr/local/include/postgresql
>> INCLUDEDIR-SERVER = /usr/local/include/postgresql/server
>> LIBDIR = /usr/local/lib
>> PKGLIBDIR = /usr/local/lib/postgresql
>> LOCALEDIR = /usr/local/share/locale
>> MANDIR = /usr/local/man
>> SHAREDIR = /usr/local/share/postgresql
>> SYSCONFDIR = /usr/local/etc/postgresql
>> PGXS = /usr/local/lib/postgresql/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk
>> CONFIGURE = '--with-libraries=/usr/local/lib'
>> '--with-includes=/usr/local/include' '--enable-thread-safety'
>> '--with-docdir=/usr/local/share/doc/postgresql' '--with-openssl'
>> '--with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo' '--enable-integer-datetimes'
>> '--enable-nls' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--mandir=/usr/local/man'
>> '--infodir=/usr/local/info/' '--build=amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0' 'CC=cc'
>> 'CFLAGS=-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe ' 'LDFLAGS= -pthread
>> -rpath=/usr/local/lib' 'build_alias=amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0'
>> CC = cc
>> CPPFLAGS = -I/usr/local/include
>> CFLAGS = -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe  -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
>> -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels
>> -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv
>> CFLAGS_SL = -fPIC -DPIC
>> LDFLAGS = -pthread -rpath=/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib
>> -Wl,-R'/usr/local/lib'
>> LDFLAGS_SL =
>> LIBS = -lpgport -lintl -lssl -lcrypto -lz -lreadline -lcrypt -lm
>> VERSION = PostgreSQL 8.3.3
>>
>> It should be something else.
>>
>> Andriy
>>
>> Jan-Peter.Seifert@gmx.de wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> Datum: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:43:29 -0400
>>>> Von: Andriy Bakay <andriy@irbisnet.com>
>>>> An: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, pgsql-ru-general@postgresql.org
>>>> Betreff: [ADMIN] SSL problems
>>>> Hi Team,
>>>>
>>>> I have problems to setup SSL for PostgreSQL server. I did all the steps
>>>> which described in the documentation (17.8. Secure TCP/IP Connections
>>>> with SSL), but when I try to start the PostgreSQL server the pg_ctl gave
>>>> me: "could not start server". And nothing in the logs (I enabled all of
>>>> them). I googled around but did not find much.
>>>>
>>>> My spec:
>>>>
>>>> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p3 amd64
>>>>
>>>> PostgreSQL 8.3.3 (installed from ports):
>>>>
>>>> WITH_NLS=true
>>>> WITHOUT_PAM=true
>>>> WITHOUT_LDAP=true
>>>> WITHOUT_MIT_KRB5=true
>>>> WITHOUT_HEIMDAL_KRB5=true
>>>> WITHOUT_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=true
>>>> WITH_XML=true
>>>> WITHOUT_TZDATA=true
>>>> WITHOUT_DEBUG=true
>>>> WITH_ICU=true
>>>> WITH_INTDATE=true
>>> obviously configure hasn't been run with the option "--with-openssl"
>>> before compiling the binaries.
>>> With the PostgreSQL command pg_config you get the configure options
>>> that have been used for making the binaries - so you can make sure. It
>>> seems that you must recompile from sources. Are you sure you have
>>> openssl itself installed on your system? Maybe you have to generate a
>>> certificate as well. It has been a while since I had installed
>>> SSL-support successfully on windows and Linux.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
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