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Re: Preventing accidental non-SSL connections in psql?

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On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 5:21:23 pm Yang Zhang wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
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>> > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Yang Zhang <yanghatespam@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
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>> >> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> wrote:
>
>> >>> On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:06:40 pm Yang Zhang wrote:
>
>> >>>> How do I prevent accidental non-SSL connections (at least to specific
>
>> >>>> hosts) when connecting via psql? Is there any configuration for this?
>
>> >>>> Thanks.
>
>> >>>
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>> >>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/auth-pg-hba-conf.html
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>> >>> hostssl
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>> >>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/libpq-connect.html
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>> >>> sslmode
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>> >>
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>> >> I'm aware of sslmode and hostssl - the threat model I'm asking about
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>> >> is the client getting MITM'd because the user forgets to specify `psql
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>> >> sslmode=verify-full`.
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>> >
>
>> > As long as you only have hostssl entries for connections the users
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>> > can't connect without ssl.
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>>
>
>> hostssl is a server-side policy; I'm interested in setting up my
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>> client with mandatory server authentication.
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> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/libpq-envars.html
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> PGSSLMODE behaves the same as the sslmode connection parameter.
>
> Now you have both ends and the middle:)

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for.

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