Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth

2009-10-17 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 16/10/2009 20:38, Raymond O'Donnell wrote: > Does "PG" = PostgreSQL? If so, it can do LDAP, Kerberos and PAM, among > other things: Apologies for the noise - I thought I was replying to a non-PG list. :-) Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnel

Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth

2009-10-16 Thread Magnus Hagander
2009/10/17 Tom Lane : > If you decide to go with this approach and use PAM as intermediary, > you'll need the patch I just committed in response to bug #5121 --- it > turns out nobody had ever tried that with Postgres before :-(.  But > I think it's also possible to just use PG's native Kerberos su

Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth

2009-10-16 Thread Tom Lane
"Scot Kreienkamp" writes: > On 16/10/2009 19:38, Scot Kreienkamp wrote: >> ... We are a largely Windows shop with many app and >> database servers running Linux. The Linux environment is growing too >> large not to do centralized authentication of some kind. > So I guess what I see taking sha

Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth

2009-10-16 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 16/10/2009 19:38, Scot Kreienkamp wrote: > Hey everyone, > > > > I apologize in advance for going slightly off topic, but I have never > setup a centralized authentication scheme under Linux. My question is, > what do most people do for centralized command line, X, and PG > authentication?

Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth

2009-10-16 Thread Scot Kreienkamp
On 16/10/2009 19:38, Scot Kreienkamp wrote: > Hey everyone, > > > > I apologize in advance for going slightly off topic, but I have never > setup a centralized authentication scheme under Linux. My question is, > what do most people do for centralized command line, X, and PG > authentication?

Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth

2009-10-16 Thread Scot Kreienkamp
From: Scott Mead [mailto:scott.li...@enterprisedb.com] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 2:50 PM To: Scot Kreienkamp Cc: pgsql-general Subject: Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Scot Kreienkamp wrote: Hey everyone, I apologize in advance for

Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth

2009-10-16 Thread Scott Mead
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Scot Kreienkamp wrote: > Hey everyone, > > > > I apologize in advance for going slightly off topic, but I have never setup > a centralized authentication scheme under Linux. My question is, what do > most people do for centralized command line, X, and PG authenti