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The VERIFY_PEER option specifies whether or not the authenticity of the PeopleSoft server's X.509 certificate is verified.
In order to verify the authenticity of the server's certificate, the CA_CERTIFICATES configuration option must point to a valid list of certificate authority certificates.
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option is the specification for whether or not the authenticity of the PeopleSoft server's X.509 certificate is verified.
Valid values for option are:
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(The default was previously yes but it was changed in 7.46.0.0 as tasks launched from the controller would always set verify_peer to no even when it was specified as yes, so in order to preserve previous functionality and not interfere with previously created tasks as much, the default was changed to no and setting the verify_peer option to yes now works as intended.)
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