Re: LibreOffice driver 2: MIT Kerberos vs Microsoft Kerberos - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: LibreOffice driver 2: MIT Kerberos vs Microsoft Kerberos
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Msg-id 20111213220901.GT24234@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: LibreOffice driver 2: MIT Kerberos vs Microsoft Kerberos  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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* Greg Smith (greg@2ndQuadrant.com) wrote:
> This answers Lionel's question, but I'm curious for a more user
> impact opinion from you.  Given that pgAdmin III has given up on MIT
> KRB5, would you feel doing the same is appropriate for LibreOffice
> too?  It sounds like they really shouldn't take on either the build
> cruft or the potential security issues of pulling that in at this
> point.

Yes, I'd encourage LibreOffice to drop MIT "Kerberos for Windows" from
their configure/install of libpq on Windows.  It's just too painful and
evil and, today, it might almost be better to just use the built-in
Windows stuff (even on XP with the crappy encryption..) than deal with
the headaches and known security flaws in the ancient MIT KfW build.
Thanks,
    Stephen

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