Re: SSL confirmation

Ok,
is it possible to trace/monitor processes as they come into postgresql
tables like you can in windows SQLServer?

regards

Andrew
On 5 Dec 2004, at 18:27, Michael Fuhr wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:59:41PM +0100, Andreas Seltenreich wrote:
>> Andrew M. writes:
>>
>>> this what I get when I issue the openssl command:
>>>
>>> 6521:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake
>>> failure:s23_lib.c:226:
>>>
>>> could you explain what this means if you know?
>>
>> I'm afraid, I think my suggestion to use openssl's s_client with the
>> postmaster's builtin SSL support was bogus, since Magnus Hagander
>> writes in an older message: "SSL is not enabled at connection time in
>> pgsql - it is negotiatied with the postmaster, and enabled later."
>>
>> <URL:http://groups.google.de/groups?
>> as_umsgid=81124B76C0CF364EBAC6CD213ABEDEF71D3095%40ARGON.edu.sollentun
>> a.se>
>>
>> So using the openssl tools won't help here.
>
> Right -- see the "Frontend/Backend Protocol" chapter in the
> documentation, in particular the "SSL Session Encryption" section:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/protocol-flow.html#AEN52782
>
> You can use psql to check if SSL is working. Psql prints a message
> like the following if SSL was successfully negotiated:
>
> SSL connection (cipher: DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits: 256)
>
> --
> Michael Fuhr
> http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
>