Kerberized DBMS's Available

[Bruce Stewart]

We have developed  Kerberos patch for the jTDS JDBC driver (MS SQL Server 2000+) based on the GSS-API (JDK 1.4+).  It is not officially part of the jTDS release.  If SQL Server/Sybase is an option for you, drop me a mail.  I know I'd really appreciate comment/criticism so that I can improve the docs.

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From: kerberos-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:kerberos-bounces at mit.edu]On
Behalf Of Henry B. Hotz
Sent: 05 October 2006 19:57
To: kerberos at mit.edu
Subject: Kerberized DBMS's Available


I'm looking for a DBMS that supports Kerberos for user authentication  
and has a JDBC client.  It appears that I may have to write the  
support myself, unless someone can add something I haven't been able  
to find out.

The "big three" I know about are:

MySQL -- market leader, but no Kerberos support.  Also AFAIK no  
ability to use the identity from an SSH or SSL tunnel.  SASL/GSSAPI  
patches probably acceptable if offered.

PostgreSQL -- supports Kerberos directly with the MIT API.  No SASL/ 
GSSAPI support so Kerberos support doesn't work with the JDBC client,  
or on Windows (unless you build against KfW presumably).  GSSAPI  
patches probably acceptable if done "cleanly".

Oracle -- supports Kerberos directly using some pre-release MIT code  
independent of available any outside Kerberos libraries.  Not sure if  
our site license allows export of the client, or if they have a  
Kerberos aware JDBC client.  I expect not for at least one of those.

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Henry.B.Hotz at jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz at oxy.edu


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