Re: Preventing accidental non-SSL connections in psql?

On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:24:30 pm Yang Zhang wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:06:40 pm Yang Zhang wrote:
> >> How do I prevent accidental non-SSL connections (at least to specific
> >> hosts) when connecting via psql? Is there any configuration for this?
> >> Thanks.
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/auth-pg-hba-conf.html
> > hostssl
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/libpq-connect.html
> > sslmode
>
> I'm aware of sslmode and hostssl - the threat model I'm asking about
> is the client getting MITM'd because the user forgets to specify `psql
> sslmode=verify-full`.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/ssl-tcp.html
17.8.1. Using client certificates

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