From: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Brian Crowell <brian(at)fluggo(dot)com> |
Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org >> PG-General Mailing List" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: GSSAPI server side on Linux, SSPI client side on Windows |
Date: | 2013-10-31 15:32:45 |
Message-ID: | CAHyXU0z3yorhaKouZdy1s8j7sfnTQnCHp4a=LpKPnRGue2Hb4g@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Brian Crowell <brian(at)fluggo(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello again!
>
> I've been setting up my PostgreSQL server by doing something I've
> never done before: I've joined a Linux server to a domain so I can use
> integrated Kerberos authentication from server to server.
>
> I've managed to make this work from Linux machine to Linux machine. On
> the client, I retrieve my Kerberos ticket with kinit, and then I can
> use psql with my username to connect to the server without a password
> over GSSAPI. So far, so good.
>
> However, the eventual goal was to connect to this same server from a
> .NET app running on Windows, and here I've run into a snag. The Npgsql
> library does not support GSSAPI—it only supports SSPI, which is
> nearly-but-not-enough-like the same thing to count in this situation,
> because I can't seem to configure my PostgreSQL on Linux to accept
> SSPI. If I try it, I get the error:
>
> invalid authentication method "sspi": not supported by this build
>
> The docs say that SSPI is supported if GSSAPI is available
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/auth-methods.html#SSPI-AUTH)
> Is this just a matter of me running the wrong build? I'm using
> PostgreSQL 9.3 from the official builds for Debian 6.
>
> If the docs are wrong, and SSPI isn't available server-side on Linux,
> what are my other options?
hm -- maybe use ODBC?
merlin
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