Kerberos authentication in PostgreSQL

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Wed Oct 30 12:27:38 EST 2002


>>>>> "Arunvijai" == Arunvijai  <arunvijai at yahoo.com> writes:

    Arunvijai> Hi Guys, Please help me to configure and run
    Arunvijai> Postgresql7.x.x Authentication with Kerberos
    Arunvijai> Authentication method.  The Starting of Kerberos under
    Arunvijai> RHL7.3 seems to be very hard.  Please send your views
    Arunvijai> to my mail address.


Please do not use the Kerberos authentication in Postgres.  It is
quite insecure.  It does not authenticate both sides of the
connection.  It provides no data protection so it is vulnerable to
man-in-the-middle and connection hijacking.




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