Re: pgbouncer with ldap

On 9/9/19 12:41 μ.μ., Laurenz Albe wrote:
> Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
>>> It has hba and via hba file one can specify ldap connections
>>>
>>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/auth-pg-hba-conf.html
>> https://pgbouncer.github.io/config.html#hba-file-format
>> "Auth-method field: Only methods supported by PgBouncer’s auth_type
>> are supported", and "ldap" is not supported.
>> When there's no ldap support in pgbouncer, there's no ldap support
>> in pgbouncer.
> To throw in something less tautological:
>
> PgBouncer supports PAM authentication, so if you are on UNIX,
> you could use PAM's LDAP module to do what you want.
Right, I had written a blog about it :
https://severalnines.com/database-blog/one-security-system-application-connection-pooling-and-postgresql-case-ldap

However, I always wished (since my first endeavors with pgbouncer) it was less complicated.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe


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