Re: [Gnumed-devel] other authentication methods

[Syan Tan]

I've put a first draft of a HOWTO on the wiki. Hope someone will get some masochistic fun out of it.

http://salaam.homeunix.com/twiki/bin/view/Gnumed/DebianKerberosLDAPBindGnumedWalthrough

On Wed Feb 8 11:36 , Karsten Hilbert sent:

> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:42:18PM +0800, Syan Tan wrote:
>
> >  Gnumed doesn't use psql  so will it work using dbapi ?
> Psql uses libpq, most dbapi adapters do, too, so yes.
>
> That might actually be an argument against writing a *pure*
> Python DB-API adaptor: it seems the various authentication
> modes would have to be implemented ?
>
> > dbapi will allow a connect to a dbapi dsn  *which doesn't have a password*. (
> > as long as the server side of the kerberos keytable
> > setup has been done).
> >  On the other hand, if you "kdestroy" the credential's
> > cache in /tmp/krb5cc_nnnn   then dbapi (pyPgSQL.PgSQL) won't connect in python,
> > and if you kinit -p  as  a principal whose name before the slash doesn't
> > correspond with a registered
> > postgres user, dbapi will come back with user doesn't exist.
> Well, yes, that's how one would expect things to work. So,
> that's good.
>
> > so kerberos will more or less work out the box with gnumed and with ldap so
> > both can be used together.
> Good !
>
> Karsten
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