Re: Use AD-account as login into Postgres.

Thanks alot Holger Jacobs 🥇

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Am 09.02.24 um 20:31 schrieb Pär Mattsson:
Yes this is a complete windows installation of Postgres and they will use ad-login account into the database

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Am 09.02.24 um 19:31 schrieb Pär Mattsson:
Hi!
Is it only to config in hba.conf the connection info, to use AD-accounts to login in postgres.
This is a windows/postres intallation 🤦‍♂️✌️

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Hi,

Short answer: No!

SSPI using AD accounts for authentication works only in a complete Windows environment. The client and the server machine have to be member of the same AD environment, which isn't possible for non-Windows machines. Otherwise, there is no trust between the machines.

An automatic creation of PostgreSQL roles from AD accounts has to be done outside PostgreSQL, i. e. by a script running regularly.

A couple of years ago, I wrote such a script for a customer.

Regards,

Holger

If that's the case, create all the necessary roles (groups, users) in PostgreSQL matching entries in pg_hba.conf and mapping entries in pg_ident, so that Windows users can connect to the database without needing to authenticate again.

It's a nice way of providing single sign-on.

Regards,

Holger

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