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Subject: Client Certificates
From: Martins Innus <minnus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:27:41 -0400
Cc: "Andrew E. Bruno" <aebruno2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi,
We have a few systems we'd like to setup with security and authentication:

http://www.pcp.io/docs/lab.secure.html
http://www.pcp.io/docs/lab.auth.html

I have 2 questions:

1. In the "Secure Connections" documentation, the documentation seems to be about certificates on the server side and ensuring the authenticity of the of the server(pmcd). Has anyone looked into implementing support for client(pmlogger, pminfo, etc) side certificates for authentication/access-control?

Alternatively, should this be done through SASL authentication and something like X509 certificates, which seem to be supported by SASL, but I can't find any documentation on.

2. Is it possible to configure pmcd to reject all non-secure/non-authenticated remote connections?

Basically I would like to do authentication based on a client side certificate, and reject all other connections. Sorry if my terminology is a little wrong, just starting to get my head around this stuff.

Thanks

Martins

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