Re: Weird GSSAPI error - trying to connect via SSH tunnel

Jeff,
Many thanks! It indeed was my case - I tried to use the wrong password and
was confused by this error message.
Vitaly

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 6:18 PM Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 5:57 AM linux.il <linux(dot)il(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to connect to AWS RDS instance with private IP using SSH
>> tunnel.
>> I have no problems with network/credentials - I tested SSH tunnel to my
>> Postgres server using command-line, and I was able to connect.
>> But no luck with PgAdmin - I'm getting a GSSAPI error message (sorry for
>> screenshot, but Pgadmin for Mac doesn't allow me copy-paste text).
>>
>
> That is just log spam. Since it found GSS credentials in the local
> environment, that is the first thing it tried. But it failed, probably
> because the server didn't want to use it. So then it moved on to the next
> method, which was password auth, and that also failed.That is the real
> error. Look in the server log file to possibly get more details on that
> failure. The error sent to unauthenticated users is intentionally vague to
> avoid leaking information.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
>