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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2015-12-15 16:57:23 -0500
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2015-12-15 16:57:23 -0500
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parentbfc7f5dd5dc641b475c27b872d6df21c20c75af1 (diff)
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Document use of Subject Alternative Names in SSL server certificates.
Commit acd08d764 did not bother with updating the documentation.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
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@@ -7296,10 +7296,12 @@ ldap://ldap.acme.com/cn=dbserver,cn=hosts?pgconnectinfo?base?(objectclass=*)
</para>
<para>
- In <literal>verify-full</> mode, the <literal>cn</> (Common Name) attribute
- of the certificate is matched against the host name. If the <literal>cn</>
- attribute starts with an asterisk (<literal>*</>), it will be treated as
- a wildcard, and will match all characters <emphasis>except</> a dot
+ In <literal>verify-full</> mode, the host name is matched against the
+ certificate's Subject Alternative Name attribute(s), or against the
+ Common Name attribute if no Subject Alternative Name of type dNSName is
+ present. If the certificate's name attribute starts with an asterisk
+ (<literal>*</>), the asterisk will be treated as
+ a wildcard, which will match all characters <emphasis>except</> a dot
(<literal>.</>). This means the certificate will not match subdomains.
If the connection is made using an IP address instead of a host name, the
IP address will be matched (without doing any DNS lookups).