Re: SSL key with passphrase

Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>

From: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-09-14T01:40:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 13 September 2011 15:17, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes:
>> There appears to be a problem with starting Postgres if the SSL key
>> has a passphrase on it.
>
> It's documented that that's unsupported.  Given the number of ways to
> start a postmaster, and the fact that many of them are noninteractive,
> I don't think it's very productive for us to worry about it.

I've managed to get pg_ctl to accept the passphrase with the -w
option.  Works fine like that.  Since that works, perhaps the page
referring to SSL could mention this.

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