Re: Trust intermediate CA for client certificates

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(at)gmail(dot)com>, stellr(at)vt(dot)edu, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Trust intermediate CA for client certificates
Date: 2013-12-02 21:02:49
Message-ID: 20131202210249.GL5274@momjian.us
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On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 03:57:45PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 12/02/2013 03:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> >>Let me ask a simple question --- can
> >>you put only the client cert on the client (postgresql.crt) and only the
> >>root cert on the server (root.crt), and will it work?
> >Yes, that's surely always worked.
>
> Not if the client has been signed by an intermediate CA, surely.
> Either the server must have the intermediate CA cert in its root.crt
> or the client must supply it along with the end cert.

Right. Tom is saying that for his openssl version, he had to have the
client supply a certificate _matching_ something in the remote root.crt,
not just signed by it.

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