Tomas and list, On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 9:25 AM Tomas Pospisek via QGIS-User < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 03.02.23 18:02, chris hermansen wrote: > > Tomas and list, > > > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 8:11 AM Tomas Pospisek via QGIS-User > > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > When I try to set up a connection to a Postgres/Postgis DB server > with > > Active Directory/Kerberos/GSS authentication the QGIS DB setup dialog > > displays this message: > > > > gssencmode value "require" invalid when GSSAPI support is not > > compiled in > > > > When I check the Postgres source code [1] I see that apparently this > > gets displayed when GSS support is not compiled in. > > > > So it seems QGIS as shipped by qgis.org <http://qgis.org> does not > > ship with GSS support? > > Is that correct? > > > > Does anybody use QGIS on Windows with GSS? How did you do it? > > > > I could go ahead and download the EDB Postgres ZIP [3] and exctract > > libpq.dll from it and replace the libqq.dll shipped by the QGIS > > installer with it, but I'm not sure if that would work at all, if > that > > would be robust and it'll certainly be a pain to maintain. > > > > Any pointers/suggestions/help? > > > > > > Maybe this is the proverbial dumb question... but why not install your > > EDB PostgreSQL on your windows machine and run it on a different port? > > And then connect to it from your QGIS instance, on that different port > > of course? > > Thanks for your answer Chris, but I can't see how you your reply relates > to my question. I need QGIS to authenticate users with Active > Directory/Kerberos. That QGIS/libpq fails to do so doesn't have anything > to do with ports but with the fact that GSS support is not compiled into > the libpq that is furnished with QGIS. > > Sorry I was somehow thinking that by using a different PostgreSQL installation "in its entirety" you could avoid using the libqq.dll (or is it libpq.dll) that QGIS installs. I guess I'm too used to (spoiled by?) apt based installations on Linux where applications tend to use what's in the distro's repositories for this kind of stuff. My apologies for contributing nothing useful to the solution of your problem. -- Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com C'est ma façon de parler.
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