Re: How to enable SSL on client

> On Dec 5, 2014, at 10:37 AM, Rajagopalan, Jayashree <Jayashree(dot)Rajagopalan(at)emc(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi all:
>
> I’m on postgres 9.0.18. Want to enable SSL for the DB connections.
> The binaries are build including the openssl.
>
> I modified the postgresql.conf – for ssl=on.
> Copied the server.crt in the data folder.
> Modified pg_hba.conf - to add:
>
> “hostssl all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5”
>
> Getting the following errors in the logs when I start DB:
> FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "127.0.0.1", user "myuser", database "mydb", SSL off
>
> Can someone share the right procedure to enable SSL on client?
> I’ve created ~/.posgresql directory and added the client.crt and server.key.
>
> Regards
> Jayashree

Hi Jayashree,

I was recently setting this up, if i remember correctly to get the client to use SSL, i set the PGSSLMODE environment variable to prefer or require.
Unfortunately I don’t work with that system anymore so i cannot just look at the settings.

Let me know if that helps.

Reiner