Re: [HACKERS] Authenticating from SSL certificates

2015-04-22 Thread Stephen Frost
Keenan, * kee...@thebrocks.net (kee...@thebrocks.net) wrote: > I'm looking into connection to postgres using authentication from client > certificates. [1] Nice! Glad to hear of more users of that capability. :) > The documentation states that the common name (aka CN) is read from the > certifi

[HACKERS] Authenticating from SSL certificates

2015-04-21 Thread kee...@thebrocks.net
Hello, I'm looking into connection to postgres using authentication from client certificates. [1] The documentation states that the common name (aka CN) is read from the certificate and used as the user's login (aka auth_user). The problem is the common name is typically the user's full name. A f