Re: Linux - possibe Postgres USERID/Password Management

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From: John Tensingh <[email protected]>
To: Patolla Bernd <[email protected]>
Cc: Subramanian,Ramachandran <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Linux - possibe Postgres USERID/Password Management
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 07:20:51 -0400
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One could user RADIUS authentication as well. We have used it successfully.
Here is the documentation:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-radius.html

Regards
John T.


On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM Patolla Bernd <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Ram,
>
> You can use any AD or ldap server for authentication. Document is here:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-ldap.html
>
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> *Betreff: *Linux - possibe Postgres USERID/Password Management
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
>
>
> With the base Postgres Product, Is there a way to let the Operating System
> deal with authenticating a user‘s connection and remove the burden of
> creating, communicating and freqently changing the password for each
> role/user?
>
>
>
> If not possible, please suggest some reliable and easy to use
> extensions/3rd party tools to achieve the same.
>
>
>
> In short, we the DBAs do not want to be responsible for password
> management.   I am grateful for any pointers.
>
>
>
>
>
> Ram
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>
> Freundliche Grüße
>
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