Peifeng Qiu <peife...@vmware.com> writes: > I'd like to add kerberos authentication support for postgres_fdw by adding two > options to user mapping: krb_client_keyfile and gssencmode.
As you note, this'd have to be restricted to superusers, which makes it seem like a pretty bad idea. We really don't want to be in a situation of pushing people to run day-to-day stuff as superuser. Yeah, having access to kerberos auth sounds good on the surface, but it seems like it would be a net loss in security because of that. Is there some other way? regards, tom lane