External User Authenticators and Directories

Overview of external authentication methods supported by ClickHouse

This page isn’t applicable to ClickHouse Cloud. The feature documented here isn’t available in ClickHouse Cloud services. See the ClickHouse Cloud Compatibility guide for more information.

ClickHouse supports authenticating and managing users using external services.

The following external authenticators and directories are supported:

• LDAP Authenticator and Directory
• Kerberos Authenticator
• SSL X.509 authentication
• HTTP Authenticator