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From: Aditya Toshniwal <[email protected]>
To: Watson, Karen L [US] (MS) <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.9 FIPS 140-2 issue pgAdmin 4.27
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 12:21:21 +0530
Message-ID: <CAM9w-_nXqh=En=eh25kT6ou_4+Ocr8ke6C6egeCriyxx9B8yTg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Hi Karen,

pgAdmin is not tested in fips 140-2. No one reported such an issue, so we
were not aware of it.
You can log the feature request here -
https://redmine.postgresql.org/projects/pgadmin4/issues/new so that we can
discuss and work on it.

On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 12:46 AM Watson, Karen L [US] (MS) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> If this is the wrong list please direct me to where I need to post this
> question.
>
>
>
> I’m working for a customer that requires fips 140-2 be turned on at the
> operating system level.  The server is Red Hat 7.9 and is using python
> 3.6.8.
>
> I’m trying to install pgAdmin 4.27 in server mode.
>
>
>
> When running setup.py after being prompted for the email address and
> password for the initial pgAdmin user I get an error message
> EVP_DigestInit_ex:disabled for fips.  I can provide a more detailed message
> when I’m onsite next week at the customer site if needed.
>
>
>
> I have searched the lists and the internet but have not found much
> information.  A few posts where individuals were having a problem but no
> answers if pgAdmin will work on a fips 140-2 linux system.
>
>
>
> We had attempted to install pgAdmin a year ago on a fips 140-2 enabled Red
> Hat OS and found out pgAdmin uses md5 and would not work when logging in
> via the web login.  We were hoping this had been fixed since there are
> customers that require the enablement of fips 140-2 on their servers.
>
>
>
> 1)      So can someone tell me if pgAdmin will work on a Red Hat 7 server
> when the operating system is in fips 140-2?  Yes/No
>
> 2)      If no, is there somewhere in the python code for pgAdmin we can
> update to get pgAdmin to work when the operating system is in fips 140-2?
> Yes/No
>
> 3)      If the answers to the above two questions are “No” does anyone
> have any recommendations for client software that developers can use from
> Window PCs to access the postgres database?
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance for any help with this.
>


-- 
Thanks,
Aditya Toshniwal
pgAdmin hacker | Sr. Software Engineer | *edbpostgres.com*
<http://edbpostgres.com;
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