[Babase] Re: Ranker security problems

Jun Yang junyang at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 21:20:05 EDT 2007


How are we going to resolve this problem?  This doesn't seem to be
something I could fix in the ranker code---sounds more like a setup
issue on papio?

--- Jun Y.

On 8/26/07, Karl O. Pinc <kop at meme.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/26/2007 03:54:35 PM, Lacey Maryott wrote:
> > I'm at the office now, and it still doesn't appear to be working,
> >
> > I set the server to papio.biology.duke.edu
> > and checked 'Use SSL'
> > and used my unix login and password.
> > the error message says "the connection attempt failed"
> >
> > For grins, I also tried with my ppa username and password, and got
> > the same error message.
> >
> > Sorry for more bad news :(
>
> This is what the log says.
>
> Aug 26 16:53:38 papio postgres[30351]: [3-1] LOG:  could not accept SSL
> connection: sslv3 alert certificate unknown.
>
> The odd part is that, as far as I know,
> no certificate should be required.  Authentication
> is happening via (Unix) username and password.
>
> There is no root.crt file.  See:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/ssl-tcp.html
> (We could make one, but certificates seem a pain to
> keep up with.)
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>                   -- Robert A. Heinlein
>
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