[pgpool-hackers: 3581] Re: [Proposal] Support LDAP Authentication

[Muhammad Usama]

Hi Jianshen,

As discussed can you please help to test and review the patch?


Thanks
Best Regards
Muhammad Usama

On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 11:42 AM Takuma Hoshiai <hoshiai at sraoss.co.jp> wrote:

> I created and attached a patch which support LDAP authentication between
> client and Pgpool-II.
>
> LDAP authentication can operate in two modes(simple bind mode and search
> and bind
> mode), auth options is set by pool_hba.conf.  These are the same as
> PostgreSQL LDAP
> authentication.
>
> LDAP authentication require a password input from client. It is not used
> for
> authentication between Pgpool-II and PostgreSQL by default, because LDAP
> and PostgreSQL
> may have different passwords. If LDAP authentication password is the same
> as PostgreSQL,
> we can reuse it for authentication between Pgpool-II and PostgreSQL by
> setting
> backend_use_password to 1 in auth-options.
>
> If you test a this patch, you should need automake and autoconf because
> this patch
> edited configure.ac .
>
> for example:
>  $ autoheader
>  $ aclocal
>  $ automake -a -c
>  $ autoconf
>
> Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>
> --
> Takuma Hoshiai <hoshiai at sraoss.co.jp>
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