Security and authentication

PasswordLockTimeUnit

The new PasswordLockTimeUnit security parameter lets you specify the time units for which an account is locked after a certain number of FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS. The number of time units is controlled by the profile parameter PASSWORD_LOCK_TIME.

Account locking is disabled by default and must be configured manually by creating or altering a profile. For details, see Account locking.

OAuth 2.0 support

You can now create and manage OAuth 2.0 authentication records and allow ODBC and JDBC clients to verify with an identity provider and then authenticate to Vertica with an access token (rather than a username and password).