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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 content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Getting the SSL key and certificate

For web servers, you must usually get your SSL certificate from a recognized certificate authority (CA), as most browsers complain if the certificate is not issued by a known CA. They warn the user of the most common security risks and require confirmation before connecting to a server with a certificate issued by an unknown CA.

For your database server, it is usually sufficient to generate the certificate yourself, using OpenSSL. The following commands generate a self-signed certificate for your server:

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

Read more on X.509 keys and certificates in OpenSSL's HOWTO's pages at https://github.com/openssl/openssl/tree/master/doc/HOWTO ...

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