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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Mapping external usernames to database roles

In some cases, the authentication username is different from the PostgreSQL username. For instance, this can happen when using an external system for authentication, such as certificate authentication, as described in the previous recipe, or any other external or single sign-on system authentication method from http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/auth-methods.html (GSSAPI, SSPI, Kerberos, Radius, or PAM). Or you may just need to enable an externally authenticated user to connect as multiple database users.

In such cases, you can specify rules to map the external username to the appropriate database role.

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