Re: PostgreSQL LDAP \ Kerberos - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: PostgreSQL LDAP \ Kerberos
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Msg-id 20190712121848.GC29202@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to PostgreSQL LDAP \ Kerberos  (Pierre Ochsenbein <pierreochsenbein@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-admin
Greetings,

* Pierre Ochsenbein (pierreochsenbein@gmail.com) wrote:
> Somebody can give me Feedback about PostgreSQL Authentication with LDAP and
> Kerberos.

You should use Kerberos for authentication, using LDAP isn't a good idea
because the PG server will see the user's password.

> Actually I use LDAP authentication and I would like to test automatically
> authentication  with Kerberos...
>
> It's easy to implement and works fine, no bugs in perspective?

Yes, it works fine, just generate a keytab and copy it to somewhere that
the PG server can see it.  If you're in an active directory environment
then this requires a bit more than just an addprinc/ktadd, there's a
blog post I wrote about doing it here:

https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/windows-active-directory-postgresql-gssapi-kerberos-authentication

Thanks,

Stephen

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