Re: kerberos authentication error with Windows 2003 SP1 AD

Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>
To: <koppelp@mir.wustl.edu>, <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2006-11-14T16:22:14Z
Lists: pgsql-general
> My operating system is Red Hat Linux AS 4, Kerberos 5, with 
> postgresql-7.4.14 that I compiled. I can authenticate using 
> ssh, su, console login, and also have gotten apache 
> mod_auth_kerb to work with AD - but I am missing something 
> with postgresql. When I try:
> 
> [pkoppe01@ipswich ~]$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -d test -h ipswich
> psql: Kerberos 5 authentication failed
> 
> For the configure step, I did (needed the include statement 
> to prevent an error about comm_err.h):
> 
> [koppel@ipswich postgresql-7.4.14]$ ./configure --with-java 
> --with-krb5 --with-includes=/usr/include/et
> 
> The make proceeded normally.
> 
> My pg_hba.conf looks like this (with pkoppe01 defined in 
> Active Directory but not defined in postgres using "createuser")
> 
> local all all trust
> host test pkoppe01 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 krb5
> 
> Also have "tcpip_socket = true" and the postgres keytab 
> referenced in postgresql.conf and the keytab file itself 
> owned by postgres.
> 
> When I try the psql command above (as pkoppe01) I do get the 
> service ticket for postgres:
> 
> [pkoppe01@ipswich ~]$ klist
> Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_501_LCzZ1P Default principal: 
> pkoppe01@PRIVATE.LAN
> 
> Valid starting Expires Service principal
> 11/13/06 11:17:25 11/13/06 21:17:28 
> krbtgt/PRIVATE.LAN@PRIVATE.LAN renew until 11/14/06 11:17:25
> 11/13/06 11:19:02 11/13/06 21:17:28 
> postgres/ipswich.private.lan@PRIVATE.LAN
> renew until 11/14/06 11:17:25
> 
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. 
> Please feel free to email me directly as I just joined the 
> list and don't know my way around yet. 

The server log from postgresql should give some more information.

//Magnus