Re: FreeRADIUS PostgreSQL sslrootcert only

Sam Hutchings <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:14:56 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freeradius.user
Message-ID <CABAo4znTMx2r8PVG4q4xJS8VWCKOpjo-N6j-PnvSKBWwvg88PQ@mail.gmail.com>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING
> there is an option sslcertmode which determines the client certificate behaviour.
> Setting that to "disable" will make the connection without attempting to load a client certificate.

Thank you Nick, that has disabled mutual TLS and this is now working.

rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect to database
"host=psqlfreeradius.postgres.database.azure.com port=5432
dbname=radius user=radius password=raddpass sslmode=verify-full
sslcertmode=disable sslrootcert=/etc/ssl/certs/MSCerts.pem"
rlm_sql (sql): Initialising connection pool
   pool {
        start = 5
        min = 3
        max = 32
        spare = 10
        uses = 0
        lifetime = 0
        cleanup_interval = 30
        idle_timeout = 60
        retry_delay = 30
        max_retries = 5
        spread = no
   }
rlm_sql (sql): Opening additional connection (0), 1 of 32 pending slots used
rlm_sql_postgresql: Connecting using parameters:
host=psqlfreeradius.postgres.database.azure.com port=5432
dbname=radius user=radius password=raddpass sslmode=verify-full
sslcertmode=disable sslrootcert=/etc/ssl/certs/MSCerts.pem
application_name='FreeRADIUS 3.2.8 - radiusd (sql)'
Connected to database 'radius' on
'psqlfreeradius.postgres.database.azure.com' server version 180002,
protocol version 3, backend PID 1275




Sam
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