Re: Authentification via Kerberos with ProxyTicket - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: Authentification via Kerberos with ProxyTicket
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Msg-id 4DC14E9E020000250003D290@gw.wicourts.gov
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In response to Authentification via Kerberos with ProxyTicket  (Tobias Schneider <t.schneider@science-computing.de>)
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Tobias Schneider <t.schneider@science-computing.de> wrote:

> We have a new web-app in our intranet and a existing database
> (Postgre 8).

Under PostgreSQL version numbering a major release number includes
the first digit past the decimal point, so you could be talking
about any of five major releases.

> The user is login on web-app by Kerberos (SSO). Now it's important
> to delegate the user ticket to database because every user has a
> database user. Is there a way to authentificate via Kerberos with
> ProxyTicket? I have to go this way (says my chief architect).
>
> Have someone a link or an document with more information about
> ProxyTicket and Postgre?

If you're on 8.4, the documentation you want is probably here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/auth-methods.html#GSSAPI-AUTH

-Kevin

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