Allow SSL to work withouth client-side certificate infrastructure.

doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml

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+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.140 2002/09/26 04:41:54 momjian Exp $
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 <Chapter Id="runtime">
@@ -2876,6 +2876,7 @@ openssl rsa -in privkey.pem -out cert.pem
    Enter the old passphrase to unlock the existing key. Now do
 <programlisting>
 openssl req -x509 -in cert.req -text -key cert.pem -out cert.cert
+chmod og-rwx cert.pem
 cp cert.pem <replaceable>$PGDATA</replaceable>/server.key
 cp cert.cert <replaceable>$PGDATA</replaceable>/server.crt
 </programlisting>

src/backend/libpq/be-secure.c

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/libpq/be-secure.c,v 1.14 2002/09/04 23:31:34 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/libpq/be-secure.c,v 1.15 2002/09/26 04:41:54 momjian Exp $
  *
  *	  Since the server static private key ($DataDir/server.key)
  *	  will normally be stored unencrypted so that the database
@@ -642,9 +642,13 @@ initialize_SSL(void)
 	snprintf(fnbuf, sizeof fnbuf, "%s/root.crt", DataDir);
 	if (!SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(SSL_context, fnbuf, CA_PATH))
 	{
+		return 0;
+#ifdef NOT_USED
+		/* CLIENT CERTIFICATES NOT REQUIRED  bjm 2002-09-26 */
 		postmaster_error("could not read root cert file (%s): %s",
 						 fnbuf, SSLerrmessage());
 		ExitPostmaster(1);
+#endif
 	}
 	SSL_CTX_set_verify(SSL_context,
 					SSL_VERIFY_PEER | SSL_VERIFY_CLIENT_ONCE, verify_cb);

src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure.c

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure.c,v 1.13 2002/09/22 20:57:21 petere Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure.c,v 1.14 2002/09/26 04:41:55 momjian Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *	  The client *requires* a valid server certificate.  Since
@@ -726,10 +726,14 @@ initialize_SSL(PGconn *conn)
 				 pwd->pw_dir);
 		if (stat(fnbuf, &buf) == -1)
 		{
+			return 0;
+#ifdef NOT_USED
+			/* CLIENT CERTIFICATES NOT REQUIRED  bjm 2002-09-26 */
 			printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
 				 libpq_gettext("could not read root certificate list (%s): %s\n"),
 							  fnbuf, strerror(errno));
 			return -1;
+#endif
 		}
 		if (!SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(SSL_context, fnbuf, 0))
 		{
@@ -789,6 +793,8 @@ open_client_SSL(PGconn *conn)
 
 	/* check the certificate chain of the server */
 
+#ifdef NOT_USED
+	/* CLIENT CERTIFICATES NOT REQUIRED  bjm 2002-09-26 */
 	/*
 	 * this eliminates simple man-in-the-middle attacks and simple
 	 * impersonations
@@ -802,6 +808,7 @@ open_client_SSL(PGconn *conn)
 		close_SSL(conn);
 		return -1;
 	}
+#endif
 
 	/* pull out server distinguished and common names */
 	conn->peer = SSL_get_peer_certificate(conn->ssl);
@@ -824,6 +831,8 @@ open_client_SSL(PGconn *conn)
 
 	/* verify that the common name resolves to peer */
 
+#ifdef NOT_USED
+	/* CLIENT CERTIFICATES NOT REQUIRED  bjm 2002-09-26 */
 	/*
 	 * this is necessary to eliminate man-in-the-middle attacks and
 	 * impersonations where the attacker somehow learned the server's
@@ -834,6 +843,7 @@ open_client_SSL(PGconn *conn)
 		close_SSL(conn);
 		return -1;
 	}
+#endif
 
 	return 0;
 }