Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth

2009-10-17 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 16/10/2009 20:38, Raymond O'Donnell wrote: Does PG = PostgreSQL? If so, it can do LDAP, Kerberos and PAM, among other things: Apologies for the noise - I thought I was replying to a non-PG list. :-) Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell,

[GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth

2009-10-16 Thread Scot Kreienkamp
Hey everyone, I apologize in advance for going slightly off topic, but I have never setup a centralized authentication scheme under Linux. My question is, what do most people do for centralized command line, X, and PG authentication? From what I've read the main choices are NIS or LDAP. LDAP

Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth

2009-10-16 Thread Scott Mead
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Scot Kreienkamp skre...@la-z-boy.comwrote: Hey everyone, I apologize in advance for going slightly off topic, but I have never setup a centralized authentication scheme under Linux. My question is, what do most people do for centralized command line, X,

Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth

2009-10-16 Thread Scot Kreienkamp
: Scott Mead [mailto:scott.li...@enterprisedb.com] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 2:50 PM To: Scot Kreienkamp Cc: pgsql-general Subject: Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Scot Kreienkamp skre...@la-z-boy.com wrote: Hey everyone, I apologize

Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth

2009-10-16 Thread Scot Kreienkamp
On 16/10/2009 19:38, Scot Kreienkamp wrote: Hey everyone, I apologize in advance for going slightly off topic, but I have never setup a centralized authentication scheme under Linux. My question is, what do most people do for centralized command line, X, and PG authentication? From

Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth

2009-10-16 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 16/10/2009 19:38, Scot Kreienkamp wrote: Hey everyone, I apologize in advance for going slightly off topic, but I have never setup a centralized authentication scheme under Linux. My question is, what do most people do for centralized command line, X, and PG authentication? From

Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth

2009-10-16 Thread Tom Lane
Scot Kreienkamp skre...@la-z-boy.com writes: On 16/10/2009 19:38, Scot Kreienkamp wrote: ... We are a largely Windows shop with many app and database servers running Linux. The Linux environment is growing too large not to do centralized authentication of some kind. So I guess what I see

Re: [GENERAL] slightly off-topic: Central Auth

2009-10-16 Thread Magnus Hagander
2009/10/17 Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us: If you decide to go with this approach and use PAM as intermediary, you'll need the patch I just committed in response to bug #5121 --- it turns out nobody had ever tried that with Postgres before :-(.  But I think it's also possible to just use PG's