Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: client to server connections... encrypted?

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:21:41PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > > I cannot recall this getting discussed. It is different
> > > from whether or not the postgres databases reside on an
> > > encrypted volume or hard drive.
> 
> > > What (if any) built-in method exists for the client to
> > > establish an encrypted (presumably SSL) connections to a
> > > GNUmed database?
> 
> Sure, SSL is possible. It doesn't need GNUmed support.

IOW, on Debian it works out of the box. GNUmed
unconditionally sets the connect options to SSL=preferred.

It then depends on the server configuration whether that's
ignored, honored, required or rejected.

Karsten
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