OAuth 2.0 authentication

Rather than with a username and password, users can authenticate to Vertica by first verifying their identity with an identity provider, receiving an OAuth token, and then passing the token to Vertica.

Rather than with a username and password, users can authenticate to Vertica by first verifying their identity with an identity provider, receiving an OAuth token, and then passing the token to Vertica.

OAuth in Vertica is tested with Keycloak, Okta, and OTDS but other providers should work if they support the RFC 7662 Token Introspection standard.