| From: | Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, 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 20:21:49 |
| Message-ID: | 529CEBDD.4060006@gmail.com |
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On 12/02/2013 02:17 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Yes. And the problem is that there is no way to prevent OpenSSL from
>> accepting intermediate certificates supplied by the client. As a
>> result, the server cannot accept client certificates signed by one
>> intermediate CA without also accepting *any* client certificate that can
>> present a chain back to the root CA.
>
> Isn't that sort of the point?
>
I'm not sure what you're asking. The desired behavior (IMO) would be to
accept client certificates signed by some intermediate CAs without
accepting any client certificate that can present a chain back to the
trusted root. This is currently not possible, mainly due to the way
that OpenSSL works.
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