Re: PostgreSQL configurable SSL key checking

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:03:06PM +0200, Simon de Hartog wrote:

> I have added all the users these applications run as to a group called
> "ssl". Permissions on the private key are owned by root, group ssl,
> protection rw-r----- (640). When I tell PostgreSQL to use this key with
> certificate (by using symlinks from server.key and server.crt in the
> postgreSQL data dir) it tells me that owner and permissions are wrong.
>
> How can I use this certificate and key for PostgreSQL (without copying
> the key and changing owner and permissions etc, because then the whole
> idea of centrally coordinated certificates is gone)?

Did you try using a hardlink instead of a symlink?

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