Re: User Authentication: LDAP and "local" accounts concurrently ?

Greetings,

* Lentes, Bernd (bernd(dot)lentes(at)helmholtz-muenchen(dot)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