Re: psycopg2 and java gssapi questions

This shows you how to setup GSSAPI authentication server side, which I have already done and have working. My question is from client side, without a human logged in to generate the ticket.

>>Hello,
>>have a look at

>>https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/auth-methods.html

>>There are details about LDAP and GSSAPI.

>>On 20.12.2017 20:42, Mike F wrote:
>>> Is it possible to authenticate with Postgres from a standalone
>>> application using gssapi? In other words, I am able to authenticate with
>>> Postgres when a human has logged in to either Windows or Linux and
>>> generated a ticket, but is it possible for say a Django site or Java
>>> application running on some server somewhere to authenticate with
>>> Postgres using gssapi? I realize that psycopg2 has a connection
>>> parameter for “krbsrvname”, but how does it generate a ticket? Is this
>>> the only alternative to secure authentication since Postgres does not
>>> support secure ldap (ldaps)?