Re: JBDC LDAP support

Hi John,

There is LDAP authentication in PostgreSQL.

Check out the PostgreSQL Documentation, section 19.3.8
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/auth-methods.html
and https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/LDAP_Authentication_against_AD

- Gerald
On 7/18/2014 3:53 PM, John Neal wrote:
>
> Does the postgres JDBC driver include LDAP support? I was able to get
> psql to connect via LDAP using pg_service.conf (so I can confirm that
> the LDAP entry is correct), but a majority of our applications use
> jdbc to connect.
>
> For example, normally our java apps would connect to Oracle with a url
> like this:
>
> jdbc:oracle:thin:@ldap://oid.myserver.com/ABC_APP_L3,cn=OracleContext
>
> However, I'm not able to find a way to accomplish similar with
> postgres. I've confirmed that the driver
> (postgresql-9.3-1102.jdbc4.jar) works when specifying the hostname,
> dbname, and port. When using LDAP, this is what I would expect, but it
> doesn't work.
>
> jdbc:postgresql:@ldap:// oid.myserver.com/ ABC_APP_L3,cn=PostgresContext
>
> I'd appreciate any advice.
>
> John Neal
>

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