Peter Koczan <pjkoczan@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I would like to, but can't seem to get Kerberos working for local > connections. krb5_sendauth and krb5_recvauth only work with TCP or UDP connections, according to what I can find on the net. If you think your local implementation might not have that restriction, try diking out these lines in src/backend/libpq/hba.c: /* Disallow auth methods that always need TCP/IP sockets to work */ if (port->auth_method == uaKrb5) goto hba_syntax; and see what happens ... regards, tom lane