Purpose

Specifies the GSS credential object used to instantiate Kerberos constrained delegation. Constrained delegation is a Kerberos mechanism that allows a client application to delegate authentication to a second service.

Important: Because the value of this property is a Java object, it cannot be specified in a connection URL. It can only be passed as a Properties or DataSource object.

Valid Values

string

where:

string
is the name of the GSS credential object.

Notes

  • AuthenticationMethod must be set to kerberos to use constrained delegation.
  • Java SE 8 or higher must be used to generate the GSS credential object for Kerberos constrained delegation.

Data Source Method

setGSSCredential

Default

Null

Data type

String

See also