Re: client authentication towards postgresql in php?

> If your actually creating a user inside the database for each user,
> authentication is handled inside the database and passwords are held
> inside the database.  When your php login script fires off, save the
> user name/ password into a session and then use that info to build your
> pg_connect strings.

The problem is, I don't have a password available in php.
The users are authenticated with x509 certificats and a private key, not a password. The private key is stored on a
smartcardand never leaves it, the smartcard itself handles the authentication with apache. 

Problem now is, I want to authenticate the user with postgresql, to be able to log what the user is doing in postgresql
itself.
But I don't have a password to authenticate the user.
Thought about using a Kerberos ticket in postgresql, but don't know how to setup this.


Daniel

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