Re: Trust intermediate CA for client certificates

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, stellr(at)vt(dot)edu, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Trust intermediate CA for client certificates
Date: 2013-12-03 02:25:12
Message-ID: 20131203022512.GS5274@momjian.us
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On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 04:56:56PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Ian Pilcher (arequipeno(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> > > In any case, the idea that this is somehow OpenSSL's fault and another
> > > implementation of the same protocol wouldn't have the same issue sounds
> > > pretty silly.
> >
> > Actually other implementations do this. In fact, a flag was added to
> > OpenSSL fairly recently to allow validating a chain only up to an
> > intermediate CA for this very reason.
>
> Perhaps that's been a recent change, but it certainly wasn't part of the
> original approach and complaining that PG doesn't do it is hardly fair.
> Indeed, it sounds like this is something which should *still* be done
> outside of PG and through however you configure OpenSSL on your system.
>
> Regardless, it's completely off-topic for this discussion, which is
> about documenting what we *currently* do. If you'd like to propose a
> new set of features, or better yet, a rework of how we configure SSL in
> PG, please do so on another thread. :)

Uh, this thread actually started with Ian's feature request, and has
changed to document the current behavior.

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