Re: LDAP Authentication - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile)
Subject Re: LDAP Authentication
Date
Msg-id 1215053435.9810.61.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: LDAP Authentication  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
List pgsql-general
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 17:58 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> This is not something you currently can do. We can only do LDAP
> authentication, not authorization. There's no way to restrict it to a
> particular group.

We're very interested in this functionality (nss_ldap for PgSQL) -- so
if there's a joint-development effort that we can contribute man-hours
or development resources (challenge grant funding, hardware, etc.) to,
let us know.

~BAS

> One way to accomplish what you're trying to do is to have a script
> that
> synchronizes the members of the group to PostgreSQL accounts (account
> name and role membership only), and still use LDAP for authentication.




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