FreeTDS Development Group

["Craig A. Berry" <craigberry AT mac.com>]

On Jun 23, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Frediano Ziglio wrote:

> 2010/6/23 Craig A. Berry <craigberry AT mac.com>:
> >

> > So you would still have an authentication step and need to store that
> > Kerberos ticket and then present it to SQL Server.  There's probably
> > code in Samba that does something like that.  Probably Mozilla also.
> > It may be that most Linux systems already have a Kerberos client and
> > you'd just need to follow its documentation for fetching the ticket.
>
> FreeTDS too :)
>
> Current CVS supports also SSPI and Kerberos. SSPI (supported under
> Windows) allow using current saved authentication (using internally
> and automatically NTLM or Kerberos) while Kerberos provide this
> feature even for Unix systems. At libTDS level provide empty username
> and password and Kerberos/SSPI is used. I think the only thing we miss
> is -T/whatever parameter in bcp/isql/whatever.


Good to know. I think I saw a saw a discussion awhile back and thought  
it was still to-do.  The -T switch should be pretty easy in that case.
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