Re: Design Considerations for New Authentication Methods

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
Subject: Re: Design Considerations for New Authentication Methods
Date: 2006-11-03 21:52:21
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA0FCF3@algol.sollentuna.se
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> >> To be honest, I have often wondered *why* we support
> kerberos outside
> >> of the uber l33t geek factor. I have not once in a commercial
> >> deployment had a business requirement for the beast. LDAP?
> Now that
> >> is a whole other issue :)
> >
> > Single sign-on in a Windows/AD environment (I'm talking clients on
> > windows, servers on linux here - at least in my case). I
> know several
> > people who use it, most just don't post here ;-)
>
> Wouldn't the LDAP auth in 8.2 resolve that?

No. LDAP gives me single credentials, but not single sign-on. I still
have to enter my password every time I connect.

//Magnus

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