Re: Design Considerations for New Authentication Methods - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

>> To be honest, I have often wondered *why* we support kerberos 
>> outside of the uber l33t geek factor. I have not once in a 
>> commercial deployment had a business requirement for the 
>> beast. LDAP? Now that is a whole other issue :)
> 
> Single sign-on in a Windows/AD environment (I'm talking clients on
> windows, servers on linux here - at least in my case). I know several
> people who use it, most just don't post here ;-)

Wouldn't the LDAP auth in 8.2 resolve that?

> 
> Now, it would likely be a lot *easier* to do this with GSSAPI than the
> pure kerberos stuff we have now, given that the Windows native APIs
> support GSSAPI compatible stuff, but not the stuff we have now.

Nod.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



> 
> //Magnus
> 


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