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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Lentes, Bernd <bernd.lentes@helmholtz-muenchen.de>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: User Authentication: LDAP and "local" accounts concurrently ?
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 15:52:07 -0500
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Greetings,

* Lentes, Bernd (bernd.lentes@helmholtz-muenchen.de) wrote:
> > Yes, but it might already have it, depending on what library is being
> > used to talk to PostgreSQL.  The C library interface for PG, libpq, for
> > example, supports Kerberos and just has to be built with it (which most
> > versions you'll find have been).  If the application is JDBC and uses
> > the PostgreSQL JDBC driver, that also supports Kerberos.  If the
> > application is written in another language like Perl or Python and is
> > using the common libraries for those (DBD::Pg, psycopg2), which use
> > libpq underneath, then it depends on the way that version of libpq was
> > built, but, again, most of the libpq builds out there support Kerberos.
> > 
> > I don't know anything about geneious, but hopefully it's using libpq or
> > JDBC in some fashion and already has Kerberos support thanks to those
> > libraries having it.

> geneious is a Java App, the Download is bundeld with a JRE.
> I think the database driver is JDBC.

If it's the one from https://jdbc.postgresql.org and has all of the
necessary dependencies from a Java perspective then it should work with
Kerberos.

Thanks!

Stephen

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