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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it…

For testing purposes, or for just setting up a single trusted user, you can use a self-signed certificate:

openssl  genrsa  2048  >  client.keyopenssl  req  -new  -x509  -key  server.key  -out  client.crt

On the server, set up a line in pg_hba.conf file with the hostssl method and the clientcert option set to 1:

hostssl  all    all    0.0.0.0/0         md5  clientcert=1

Put the client root certificate in the root.crt file in the server data directory ($PGDATA/root.crt). This file may contain multiple trusted root certificates.

If you are using a central certificate authority, you probably also have a certificate revocation list, which should be put in a root.crl file and regularly updated.

On the client, put the client's private key and certificate in ...

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