Re: Postgresql 8.4 GSSAPI auth with fallback to password prompting? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Postgresql 8.4 GSSAPI auth with fallback to password prompting?
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Msg-id 20130325154447.GO4361@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Postgresql 8.4 GSSAPI auth with fallback to password prompting?  (Tim Watts <tim.j.watts@kcl.ac.uk>)
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* Tim Watts (tim.j.watts@kcl.ac.uk) wrote:
> I wish I could help - but I more of a sysamdin and less of a developer.

So was I, until I ran into this annoying issue where a table could only
have one owner..  Then I added support for roles. :)

> A "negotiate" option would be very cool. I will expect nothing (on
> the basis it's free software, I have no rights ;-> ).

I'm open to possibly working on adding support for Negotiate (which is
actually a specific protocol..), if there's really interest in it.  To
be honest, we've not heard this request very much and so it hasn't
exactly been on the radar.

> Save to say I think Postgresql is very cool already and has been for
> the last 12 years I've been using it...

Thanks!

    Stephen

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