Re: ZEO SSL support and Daft docs

Jim Fulton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.zodb
Message-ID <CAPDm-Fjm4hVsRTE3GkSDwa4OGDRr80qFOQO4jAyAnj2XHTK4bQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Sean Upton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Patrick Strawderman <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > - It seems like clients can be configured to use the system's CA bundle,
>> > but
>> > the same is not mentioned in the description for the server's client
>> > cert
>> > configuration. Is that intentional?
>>
>> Did you ask this for the sake of symmetry?  Or do you think there's a
>> use case for a server wanting to allow clients with signed
>> certificates, but without any other sort of authentication?
>>
>
> I want to be able to authenticate with just a certificate, signed by a CA
> trusted by the server.  This is what I am doing for PostgreSQL SSL now for
> RelStorage:
>
> https://github.com/upiq/plonebuild/blob/master/app/src/build/postgresql-ssl.rst#process-for-keys-and-certificates
>
> I suppose that this does not scale to "trust any CA" because my postgresql
> setup assumes one CA, out-of-band, under my control.  But this ought to be a
> common enough assumption to support for small-ish set-ups.

I'm not sure I understand this.

Are you suggesting that a server should be willing to accept clients
that have certificates signed by an external (system-defined)
authority without any other information?

Jim

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