Re: SSL over Unix-domain sockets

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> I thought the logical solution to this was to place the socket in a
>>> secure directory and not bother with SSL at all.
>> How would a client algorithmically determine whether the server socket 
>> was in a "secure" directory?
> 
> You have to configure your client to know that, but don't you need to
> configure your client for SSL too?

Yes, but how exactly would a client know?  How is a "secure directory" 
defined, in terms of C library calls, say?