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From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: PATCH: Add GSSAPI ccache_name option to libpq
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Msg-id 20210420190103.GM20766@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to PATCH: Add GSSAPI ccache_name option to libpq  (Daniel Carter <danielchriscarter+postgres@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: PATCH: Add GSSAPI ccache_name option to libpq  (Daniel Carter <danielchriscarter+postgres@gmail.com>)
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Greetings,

* Daniel Carter (danielchriscarter+postgres@gmail.com) wrote:
> This is a small patch (against master) to allow an application using libpq
> with GSSAPI authentication to specify where to fetch the credential cache
> from -- it effectively consists of a new field in PQconninfoOptions to store
> this data and (where the user has specified a ccache location) a call into
> the gss_krb5_ccache_name function in the GSSAPI library.

I'm not necessarily against this, but typically the GSSAPI library
provides a way for you to control this using, eg, the KRB5_CCACHE
environment variable.  Is there some reason why that couldn't be used..?

Thanks,

Stephen
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