SSL Client Authentication (SSLCAUTH)

This attribute specifies whether the channel needs to receive and authenticate an SSL certificate from an SSL client.

Possible values are:

OPTIONAL: If the peer SSL client sends a certificate, the certificate is processed as normal but authentication does not fail if no certificate is sent.
REQUIRED: If the SSL client does not send a certificate, authentication fails.

The default value is REQUIRED.

You can specify a value for SSLCAUTH on a non-SSL channel definition, one on which SSLCIPH is missing or blank..

SSLCAUTH is an optional attribute.

This attribute is valid on all channel types that can ever receive a channel initiation flow, except for sender channels.

This attribute is valid for channel types of:

For more information about SSLCAUTH, see DEFINE CHANNEL (MQTT) and Security.