Re: GSSAPI doesn't play nice with non-canonical host names - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: GSSAPI doesn't play nice with non-canonical host names
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Msg-id 3048.1201538390@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: GSSAPI doesn't play nice with non-canonical host names  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>>> While I'm complaining: that's got to be one of the least useful error
>>> messages I've ever seen, and it's for a case that's surely going to be
>>> fairly common in practice.

> AFAIK, that one is for Kerberos only. For GSSAPI, we already use the
> gss_display_status function to get the error messages. I think the problem
> here is in the Kerberos library?

Yeah, I had verified by tracing through it that the text was just what
gss_display_status gave us.  It could be that it's just plain broken,
but I was sort of hoping that we were using it incorrectly or that
there's some magic flag to set to get better messages out of it.
        regards, tom lane


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