Re: how to enable ldap authentication

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: bo gu <coopci(at)msn(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: how to enable ldap authentication
Date: 2011-10-24 14:40:06
Message-ID: 1195.1319467206@sss.pgh.pa.us
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bo gu <coopci(at)msn(dot)com> writes:
> It seemed the executable was compiled with ldap:
> ldd /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres
> libldap-2.2.so.7 => /usr/lib64/libldap-2.2.so.7 (0x0000002a956ed000) <----

I agree, that executable looks to have ldap support.

> But when I ran pg_ctl start, it exits without listening any port and I got this:
> tail postgresql-2011-10-24_104954.log
> LOG: invalid authentication method "ldap": not supported by this build
> CONTEXT: line 97 of configuration file "/usr/local/pgsql/databases/tudouapi/pg_hba.conf"

But this one doesn't. Are you sure you invoked
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres, and not some other copy?

regards, tom lane

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