[GENERAL] Using LDAP roles in PostgreSQL

2011-07-13 Thread Lars Kanis
Hi, LDAP is often used to do a centralized user and role management in an enterprise environment. PostgreSQL offers different authentication methods, like LDAP, SSPI, GSSAPI or SSL. However, for any of these methods the user must already exist in the database, before the authentication can be

Re: [GENERAL] Using LDAP roles in PostgreSQL

2011-07-13 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Lars Kanis ka...@comcard.de wrote: Homepage: https://github.com/larskanis/pg-ldap-sync Is it something useful for someone apart of mine? Hi Lars; While I don't have an immediate use for it, it is very nice to know such a tool exists, and I think it is likely

Re: [GENERAL] Using LDAP roles in PostgreSQL

2011-07-13 Thread Lars Kanis
Hi Chris, I do have a question though. Does your application allow for creating only users and groups in part of the LDAP tree? Or does it have that possibility yet? Also can it be configured to ignore grants of specific Pg roles to users? Yes, filters on both sides can be set and they can