>From the tiny bit I know about this, and a bit of googling, I arrived at
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13850252/cannot-get-kerberos-service-ticket-krbexception-server-not-found-in-kerberos-d
.
It seems to suggest that either the KDC or your service account might have
bad PTR records, and you might want to capture DNS traffic on the two
hosts. Of course, I have no idea whether that is actually the issue.
I remember reading these docs ages ago - best of luck!
--Michael
On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 11:42 PM Michael van der Kolff <
mvanderko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh wait, I see.
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 11:41 PM Michael van der Kolff <
> mvanderko...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The part that you're missing, I think, is that Kerberized services
>> require a service account.
>>
>> The SPN (service principal name) is the name that is used in Kerberos
>> contexts for that service account. PostgreSQL uses
>> postgres/${hostname}@${realm}
>> by default - see https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/gssapi-auth.html.
>>
>> The important part to note here is that $hostname must match what is
>> registered in the SPN for the user that you're using as the service account
>> in AD. It might (I don't know) have to match what AD believes about the
>> host from its PTR records for that domain as well.
>>
>> --Michael
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 11:33 PM Niels Jespersen <n...@dst.dk> wrote:
>>
>>> *Fra:* Michael van der Kolff <mvanderko...@gmail.com>
>>> *Sendt:* 6. juni 2022 14:26
>>> *Til:* Niels Jespersen <n...@dst.dk>
>>> *Cc:* pgsql-general list <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
>>> *Emne:* Re: GSSAPI authentication
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> >This sounds like your PG service was unable to authenticate itself to
>>> AD.
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> >There's probably a trick to that somewhere - AD doesn't really want to
>>> be a Kerberos server, it just happens to use it 😉
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> But it works fine when the same AD-user connects from Windows to the
>>> same postgres (Linux) server. Auth fails when the user initiates login from
>>> a Linux box (that otherwise uses Kerberized ressources just fine).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Niels
>>>
>>
