Mechanism

MechanismName

Key Name Default Value Required

MechanismName

None

No

Description

The mechanism that the connector uses to authenticate the connection to the database.

Select one of the following settings, or s Set the key to the name of the authentication mechanism:

  • KRB5: The connector uses the Kerberos protocol. The application provides the user name and password.
  • LDAP: The connector uses the LDAP protocol. The application provides the user name and password.
  • TD2: The connector uses the Teradata 2 mechanism, which requires you to provide a Teradata Database user name and password. For information about the options that you use to specify your credentials, see the following:
  • TDNEGO: The connector uses the mechanism that is selected automatically through Teradata Negotiating, which can include single sign-on.
  • JWT: The connector uses a JSON web token (JWT) to authenticate the connection.

Note:

If this option is not set, then the connector uses the authentication mechanism specified in the tdgssconfigure.xml file in the TeraGSS program. This is typically TD2.

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