| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: RADIUS authentication |
| Date: | 2010-01-10 17:55:28 |
| Message-ID: | 1263146128.1339.41.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On sön, 2010-01-10 at 14:25 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> The attached patch implements RADIUS authentication (RFC2865-compatible).
>
> The main usecase for me in this is the ability to use (token based)
> one-time-password systems easily with PostgreSQL. These systems almost
> always support RADIUS, and the implementation is fairly simple. RADIUS
> can of course be used in many other scenarios as well (for example, it
> can be used to implement "only this group"-access with at least Active
> Directory, something our current LDAP doesn't support. We might
> eventually want to support that in our LDAP, but it's not there now)
Sounds interesting; I didn't know RADIUS was still in use.
There is a copy-and-paste'o in the patch, where LDAP is mentioned
instead of RADIUS.
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