Re: Allow matching whole DN from a client certificate

On 1/29/21 8:18 AM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 28 Jan 2021, at 23:10, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>> On 1/28/21 11:39 AM, Jacob Champion wrote:
>>> Unfortunately I don't really know what that solution should look like.
>>> A DSL for filtering on RDNs would be a lot of work, but it could
>>> potentially allow LDAP to be mapped through pg_ident as well
>> In the end it will be up to users to come up with expressions that meet
>> their usage. Yes they could get it wrong, but then they can get so many
>> things wrong ;-)
> My main concern with this isn't that it's easy to get it wrong, but that it may
> end up being hard to get it right (with false positives in the auth path as a
> result). Right now I'm not sure where it leans.
>
> Maybe it will be easier to judge the proposal when the documentation has been
> updated warnings for the potential pitfalls?
>

Feel free to make suggestions for wording :-)

cheers

andrew

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