[Babase] Re: Ranker security problems

Susan Alberts alberts at duke.edu
Sun Sep 2 09:08:52 EDT 2007


Thanks for everyone's input. Who do we need to talk to now? What  
would the next step be? Talk to Hunter?
Susan

On Aug 31, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Jun Yang wrote:

> 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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