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

----- On Nov 23, 2018, at 4:17 PM, Stephen Frost sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> * Lentes, Bernd (bernd(dot)lentes(at)helmholtz-muenchen(dot)de) wrote:
>> i created a Postgres Server 9.6 on a SLES 12 SP3 box. In our institution we have
>> a Windows ADS which i like to use to authenticate users via LDAP.
>
> For running PostgreSQL in a Windows ADS environment, you should really
> be using GSSAPI / Kerberos and *not* using LDAP authentication.
>
> GSSAPI / Kerberos is what Windows uses to authenticate users and
> services and it's much more secure than using LDAP.

Hi Stephen,

thanks for your answer. I'm not familiar with LDAP, GSSAPI and Kerberos.
Why is it more secure ?

Bernd

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