Re: BUG #5468: Pg doesn't send accepted root CA list to client during SSL client cert request

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #5468: Pg doesn't send accepted root CA list to client during SSL client cert request
Date: 2010-05-26 05:30:55
Message-ID: 4BFCB20F.2030308@postnewspapers.com.au
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On 26/05/10 11:01, Tom Lane wrote:
> In principle, you could have the server and clients using totally
> nonoverlapping sets of trusted CAs (nonoverlapping root.crt lists),
> as long as each can chain its identity up to a CA the other trusts.
> So it's all nice and symmetrical.

... and it's exactly this cases that confuses keystore based clients
that may have multiple certs installed.

See the self-contained test case here:

http://www.postnewspapers.com.au/~craig/testcase.zip

... which includes a Pg datadir and configuration, the certificate
authority, the certificates, a detailed log of test case setup, the test
programs, logs of test output along with explanation of those logs, etc.

--
Craig Ringer

Tech-related writing: http://soapyfrogs.blogspot.com/

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