| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Client certificate authentication |
| Date: | 2008-11-17 12:31:23 |
| Message-ID: | 20081117123123.GF4291@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Magnus Hagander escribió:
> On 16 nov 2008, at 01.00, "Alex Hunsaker" <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> My only concern is there is no way to specify the USER_CERT_FILE for
>> libpq. So if for example I have two users that I want to use cert
>> authentication for I really have to have to users on the system (or i
>> guess maybe you could fake HOME=... psql -U other_user). Or am I
>
> While not directly related to this patch, that is a very good point. We
> have PGSSLKEY but not PGSSLCERT. Could certainly be worth adding.
FWIW I think this was part of the patch submitted by Mark Woodward; see
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFest_2008-07, and
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20080801203157.GL4321@alvh.no-ip.org
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