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Re: ssl passphrase callback

Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-11-01T17:57:29Z
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  1. Provide a TLS init hook

On 11/1/19 11:01 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:37 AM Andrew Dunstan
> <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> This patch provides a hook for a function that can supply an SSL
>> passphrase. The hook can be filled in by a shared preloadable module. In
>> order for that to be effective, the startup order is modified slightly.
>> There is a test attached that builds and uses one trivial
>> implementation, which just takes a configuration setting and rot13's it
>> before supplying the result as the passphrase.
> It seems to me that it would be a lot better to have an example in
> contrib that does something which might be of actual use to users,
> such as running a shell command and reading the passphrase from
> stdout.
>
> Features that are only accessible by writing C code are, in general,
> not as desirable as features which can be accessed via SQL or
> configuration.
>


Well, I tried to provide the most trivial and simple test I could come
up with. Running a shell command can already be accomplished via the
ssl_passphrase_command setting.


cheers


andrew


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