Re: Design Considerations for New Authentication Methods - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From mark@mark.mielke.cc
Subject Re: Design Considerations for New Authentication Methods
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Msg-id 20061103041829.GA29724@mark.mielke.cc
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In response to Re: Design Considerations for New Authentication Methods  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Design Considerations for New Authentication Methods  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
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On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 07:49:01PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> To be honest, I have often wondered *why* we support kerberos outside of
> the uber l33t geek factor. I have not once in a commercial deployment
> had a business requirement for the beast. LDAP? Now that is a whole
> other issue :)

Isn't NFSv4 a big application that uses Kerberos? I seem to recall that
AFS may have been a large user as well.

The only reason it isn't widely used is because companies are slow to
change. We still use NIS for host names in too many places!

Cheers,
mark

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