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Re: [Gnumed-devel] good news regarding PostgreSQL
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J Busser |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnumed-devel] good news regarding PostgreSQL |
Date: |
Fri, 3 Feb 2006 22:41:12 -0800 |
At 9:24 AM +0800 2/4/06, Syan Tan wrote:
thanks, will take a look. Don't quite
understand about the pg_hba.conf,
but you're saying it's per group rather
than per database definition of local and host
type of database access , which is
sending of md5 hashes of passwords
( this isn't challenge-authentication, is
it ?; can some one spoof the md5 password packets ?)
I've been trying to get kerberos
working lately ( mainly because my gsasl is saying
something
about credentials when I try to get ldap
to work with default configuration).
Postgres does kerberos too , doesn't
it?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/client-authentication.html
20.1. The pg_hba.conf file
20.2. Authentication methods
20.2.1. Trust authentication
20.2.2. Password authentication
20.2.3. Kerberos authentication
20.2.4. Ident-based authentication
20.2.5. PAM authentication
20.3. Authentication problems
Our GNUmed wiki page has not yet been updated to reflect
Karsten's most recent refinements:
http://salaam.homeunix.com/twiki/bin/view/Gnumed/WebHome?topic=ConfigurePostgreSQL