Re: Deprecations in authentication - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Deprecations in authentication
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Msg-id 20121105145723.GK5162@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Deprecations in authentication  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Deprecations in authentication  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Magnus,

* Magnus Hagander (magnus@hagander.net) wrote:
> I have no idea what platform that would be. Both the standard
> implementations of krb5 have supported gssapi since forever. The only
> nonstandard environment we support there is Windows, and that one *only*
> has support for GSSAPI/SSPI.

There are some older unixes that had their own Kerberos libraries,
that's what I was specifically referring to.  I agree that there's
really only 2 implementations among the major free/open source
distributions and that those have supported GSSAPI for a long time.

> Well, we can remove it and see if it breaks :)

That was more-or-less what I was encouraging.. :D

The only question there is if we're even building w/ krb5 and/or
gssapi support on the buildfarm by default today..?
Thanks,
    Stephen

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