Re: can't get psql authentication against Active Directory working

> On 18/02/2023 15:02 CET Tomas Pospisek <tpo2(at)sourcepole(dot)ch> wrote:
>
> so I'm trying to authenticate psql (on Windows) -> postgres (on Linux)
> via Active Directory.
>
> psql (Linux) -> postgres (Linux) with authentication against Active
> Directory does work.
>
> However the same with psql.exe on Windows does not. I get:
>
> D:\>C:\OSGeo4W\bin\psql.exe service=the_db
> psql: error: connection to server at "dbserver.example.lan
> (192.168.4.104), port 5432 failed: could not initiate GSSAPI
> security context: No credentials were supplied, or the credentials
> were unavailable or inaccessible: Internal credentials cache error
>
> psql.exe from the OSGeo4W QGIS Installer *does* include GSS support. (I
> have tried with a different psql.exe without GSS support and it would
> tell me that it does not support GSS).
>
> The .pg_service.conf file in the users $HOME directory looks like this:
>
> [the_db]
> host=dbserver.example.lan
> port=5432
> user=user(at)EXAMPLE(dot)LAN
> gssencmode=require
>
> This same pg_service.conf does work for psql (Linux).

On Windows the service file is not read from $home/.pg_service.conf but
$env:appdata/postgresql/.pg_service.conf (or %appdata%/postgresql/.pg_service.conf
when using cmd.exe.)

--
Erik