Re: 8.3 GSS Issues - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: 8.3 GSS Issues
Date
Msg-id 20071025130609.GF24892@svr2.hagander.net
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In response to Re: 8.3 GSS Issues  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:26:47AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:51:04PM -0700, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> 
> > > At the risk of diluting my message:  I still think it's a mistake to  
> > > call it gss instead of something like gss-noprot.  I believe this  
> > > will cause misunderstandings in the future when we get the security  
> > > layer of gssapi implemented.
> > 
> > Well, I don't agree with this, but if others want it changed, it can
> > certainly be changed. And it can only be changed *now*, and not once we
> > release.
> > 
> > But we have "host" and "hostssl", not "hostnossl" and "host". So the way we
> > are donig it now is IMO more consistent with what we have in other parts of pg.
> 
> Actually we have "hostssl", "hostnossl" and "host".

Good point. But the line that corresponds to what is currently called "gss"
is "host" :)

//Magnus


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