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PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook

You're reading from  PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838648138
Pages 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters close

Preface 1. Cluster Management Fundamentals 2. Cluster Management Techniques 3. Backup and Recovery 4. Advanced Replication Techniques 5. High Availability and Automatic Failover 6. Connection Pooling and Load Balancing 7. Securing through Authentication 8. Logging and Analyzing PostgreSQL Servers 9. Critical Services Monitoring 10. Extensions and Performance Tuning 11. Upgrades and Patches 12. About Packt 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Enabling certificate authentication using SSL

As additional security, you may wish to enable certificate authentication using SSL certificates. When it is enabled, every client connection will be authenticated through an additional certificate exchange. For this purpose, a client certificate must be used for identifying the client. The client certificates must be copied to the remote server (or an application server) to use this method. In this recipe, we shall discuss the steps involved in enabling certificate authentication using SSL.

Getting ready

In order to enable SSL, we must have the server and client certification files that are signed by a CA. This is usually performed by the security teams in most organizations. Admins could use OpenSSL to generate the certificates.

How to do it...

We will enable certificate authentication using the following steps:

  1. Copy the client certificate signed by the CA to the remote server:
$ scp postgresql.crt postgresql.key rootCA.crt postgres@192...
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