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.. _kerberos:
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`Enabling Kerberos Authentication`:index:
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To configure Kerberos authentication, you must setup your Kerberos Server and
generate a ticket on the client using *kinit*. To enable Kerberos authentication
for pgAdmin, you must configure the Kerberos settings in *config_local.py* or
*config_system.py* (see the :ref:`config.py <config_py>` documentation) on the
system where pgAdmin is installed in Server mode. You can copy these settings
from *config.py* file and modify the values for the following parameters.
.. csv-table::
:header: "**Parameter**", "**Description**"
:class: longtable
:widths: 35, 55
"AUTHENTICATION_SOURCES","The default value for this parameter is *internal*.
To enable Kerberos authentication, you must include *kerberos* in the
list of values for this parameter. you can modify the value as follows:
* [kerberos]: pgAdmin will use only Kerberos authentication.
* [kerberos, internal]: pgAdmin will first try to authenticate the user
through kerberos. If that authentication fails, then it will return back
to the login dialog where you need to provide internal pgAdmin user
credentials for authentication."
"KERBEROS_AUTO_CREATE_USER", "Set the value to *True* if you want to
automatically create a pgAdmin user corresponding to a successfully
authenticated Kerberos user. Please note that password is not stored in the
pgAdmin database."
"KRB_APP_HOST_NAME", "Specify the name of *pgAdmin webserver hostname*.
Please note that if it is not set, it will take the value of
*default_server* parameter."
Keytab file for HTTP Service
============================
* Generate the *Keytab* file for the HTTP service principal and copy it to the
*pgAdmin* webserver machine. Ensure that the operating system user owning
the *pgAdmin* webserver is the owner of this file and should be accessible
by that user.
* Please note that either you should set *default_keytab_name* parameter in
*krb5.conf* file or the environment variable *KRB5_KTNAME*. If not set then
explicitly set *KRB_KTNAME* to the location of your *Keytab* file in the
*config_local.py* or *config_system.py* file.
Apache HTTPD Configuration
==========================
If the *pgAdmin* server is under the Apache Server, then you need to add the
following parameters in *Directory* directive of
:ref:`Apache HTTPD Configuration <server_deployment>`:
* WSGIScriptReloading On
* WSGIPassAuthorization On
Browser settings to configure Kerberos Authentication
=====================================================
You need to configure the browser settings on the client machine to use
Kerberos authentication via *SPNEGO*.
- For Mozilla Firefox
- Open the low level Firefox configuration page by entering *about:config* in
the address bar.
- In the Search text box, enter: *network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris*
- Double-click the *network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris* preference and enter
the hostname or the domain of the web server that is protected by Kerberos
HTTP SPNEGO. Separate multiple domains and hostnames with a comma.
- Click OK.
- For Google Chrome
- On Windows:
* Open the Control Panel to access the Internet Options dialog.
* Select the Security tab.
* Select the Local Intranet zone and click the Sites button.
* Make sure that the first two options, *Include all local (intranet) sites
not listed in other zones* and *Include all sites that bypass the proxy
server* are checked.
* Click Advanced and add the names of the domains that are protected by
Kerberos HTTP SPNEGO, one at a time, to the list of websites. For example,
myhost.example.com. Click Close.
* Click OK to save your configuration changes.
- On Linux or macOS:
* Add the *--auth-server-whitelist* parameter to the google-chrome command.
For example, to run Chrome from a Linux prompt, run the google-chrome
command as follows:
.. code-block:: text
google-chrome --auth-server-whitelist = "hostname/domain"
PostgreSQL Server settings to configure Kerberos Authentication
===============================================================
* To connect the PostgreSQL server with Kerberos authentication, GSSAPI support
has to be enabled when PostgreSQL is built and the necessary
`configuration <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/gssapi-auth.html>`_
has to be in place.
* In pgAdmin you need to enable Kerberos authentication for the PostgreSQL
server by setting "Kerberos authentication" flag to True in the Server dialog.
Once it is enabled, pgAdmin will not prompt for a password and will try to
connect to the PostgreSQL server using Kerberos.
* Note that, you have to login into pgAdmin with Kerberos authentication to
then connect to PostgreSQL using Kerberos.