| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 20:29:50 |
| Message-ID: | 529CEDBE.2050105@dunslane.net |
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On 12/02/2013 03:21 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> 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.
>
Wouldn't that amount to only partially trusting the root? It seems kinda
odd. In any case, It's not something I think Postgres needs to solve.
cheers
andrew
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