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. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
