Re: Future of krb5 authentication - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Future of krb5 authentication
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Msg-id 20070718170457.GV4887@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Future of krb5 authentication  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Future of krb5 authentication  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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* Magnus Hagander (magnus@hagander.net) wrote:
> The maintenance part of me suggesting getting rid of krb5 is the
> smallest one. It being a non-standard protocol is more important, and
> the fact that the exchange breaks the libpq protocol and is not
> protected by SSL is the big reason.

Erm, it doesn't need to be protected by SSL?  Breaking the libpq
protocol does kind of suck.  I assume you're not requiring SSL for the
GSSAPI stuff...
Thanks,
    Stephen

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