Re: [HACKERS] SSL over Unix-domain sockets - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: [HACKERS] SSL over Unix-domain sockets
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Msg-id 20080118114036.GG7353@svr2.hagander.net
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] SSL over Unix-domain sockets  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:35:40PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb Magnus Hagander:
> > Not that much more than moving the socket file to a secure directory. Both
> > rely on configuring the client properly. It's arguably a lot easier to
> > configure the client to connect to the correct socket, than to make sure
> > the client has a root certificate installed.
>
> How would a client check whether the socket file is in a secure location?

The same way it would get the root certificate to trust - it would be told
so by the administrator who had secured the location.

//Magnus

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