Re: Authentification via Kerberos with ProxyTicket

Tobias Schneider  wrote:
 
> We have a new web-app in our intranet and a existing database
> (Postgre 8).
 
Under PostgreSQL version numbering a major release number includes
the first digit past the decimal point, so you could be talking
about any of five major releases.
 
> The user is login on web-app by Kerberos (SSO). Now it's important
> to delegate the user ticket to database because every user has a 
> database user. Is there a way to authentificate via Kerberos with
> ProxyTicket? I have to go this way (says my chief architect).
> 
> Have someone a link or an document with more information about
> ProxyTicket and Postgre?
 
If you're on 8.4, the documentation you want is probably here:
 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/auth-methods.html#GSSAPI-AUTH
 
-Kevin