> On Oct 27, 2020, at 12:23 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Sean McDaniel <sean.m.mcdan...@gmail.com> writes: >> I'm using pgadmin4 on a macOS system and I'm having trouble connecting to a >> server of interest. The "Connect to Server" dialog box has a warning: >> "GSSAPI authentication not supported". I cannot proceed beyond that point. > >> It seems to be a GSSAPI issue. I have postgres installed via homebrew and >> it supports GSSAPI. I can connect directly to the server using psql (and >> pgcli) from the command line without issue. > > A quick look through our source code finds that error string only in > libpq; it indicates that libpq was built without GSSAPI support. >
On my Mac pgadmin4 seems to use its own libpq. You can find it at: /Applications/pgAdmin\ 4.app/Contents/Frameworks/libpq.5.dylib > Since you say that you can connect with psql, it sounds like there is > more than one copy of libpq.dylib on your machine and not all of them > support GSSAPI. You could use "otool -L" on psql to verify which > libpq it's linked to. Perhaps the same thing will work on pgadmin, > but I'm unsure which file to check for that. Anyway the bottom line > here is almost certainly that pgadmin isn't using your homebrew > build of libpq, but some other one. > >> I have tried to get pgadmin4 to use these binaries by putting >> /usr/local/bin under Preferences > Paths > Binary Paths for "PostgreSQL >> Binary Path" but that doesn't fix the issue, even after a pgadmin4 restart. > > AFAIK that's only likely to help when pgadmin invokes pg_dump or > some other tool, not for its own connections to the server. > > regards, tom lane > >
