* Geoff Winkless (pgsqladmin@geoff.dj) wrote: > On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 00:05, Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote: > > Where Tom's solution fails is with smaller companies that cannot afford > > this level of infrastructure. > > Is there an objection to openldap?
LDAP-based authentication in PG involves passing the user's password to the database server in the clear (or tunneled through SSL, but that doesn't help if the DB is compromised), so it's really not a good solution
If your DB is compromised then (if the LDAP server is only used for the db) what difference does it make to lose the passwords?
I was (as per the thread) suggesting a simple way for small companies to achieve the OP's requirements without a large infrastructure investment and without involving the pg team undertaking the rediscovery of novel circular transportation-assisting devices.
Any large company will have an AD or similar setup already, clearly I'm not suggesting using it in that situation.
AIUI you can configure kerberos with openldap if that's more your thing, fwiw, but then IME the learning curve (and thus setup cost) increases exponentially.
