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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook Over 165 effective recipes for database management and maintenance in PostgreSQL 10

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788474924
Length 576 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Gianni Ciolli Gianni Ciolli
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Steps FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring the Database 3. Configuration 4. Server Control 5. Tables and Data 6. Security 7. Database Administration 8. Monitoring and Diagnosis 9. Regular Maintenance 10. Performance and Concurrency 11. Backup and Recovery 12. Replication and Upgrades 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Integrating with LDAP

This recipe shows you how to set up your PostgreSQL system so that it uses the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for authentication.

Getting ready

Ensure that the usernames in the database and your LDAP server match, as this method works for user authentication checks of users who are already defined in the database.

How to do it...

In the PostgreSQL authentication file, pg_hba.conf, we define some address ranges to use LDAP as an authentication method, and we configure the LDAP server for this address range:

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