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Re: [Gnumed-devel] other authentication methods
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Karsten Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] other authentication methods |
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Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:36:42 +0100 |
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On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:42:18PM +0800, Syan Tan wrote:
> Gnumed doesn't use psql so will it work using dbapi ?
Psql uses libpq, most dbapi adapters do, too, so yes.
That might actually be an argument against writing a *pure*
Python DB-API adaptor: it seems the various authentication
modes would have to be implemented ?
> dbapi will allow a connect to a dbapi dsn *which doesn't have a password*. (
> as long as the server side of the kerberos keytable
> setup has been done).
> On the other hand, if you "kdestroy" the credential's
> cache in /tmp/krb5cc_nnnn then dbapi (pyPgSQL.PgSQL) won't connect in
> python,
> and if you kinit -p as a principal whose name before the slash doesn't
> correspond with a registered
> postgres user, dbapi will come back with user doesn't exist.
Well, yes, that's how one would expect things to work. So,
that's good.
> so kerberos will more or less work out the box with gnumed and with ldap so
> both can be used together.
Good !
Karsten
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