Re: Future of krb5 authentication - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Future of krb5 authentication
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Msg-id 469E4D42.1040204@hagander.net
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In response to Re: Future of krb5 authentication  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: Future of krb5 authentication  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Magnus Hagander (magnus@hagander.net) wrote:
>> The maintenance part of me suggesting getting rid of krb5 is the
>> smallest one. It being a non-standard protocol is more important, and
>> the fact that the exchange breaks the libpq protocol and is not
>> protected by SSL is the big reason.
> 
> Erm, it doesn't need to be protected by SSL?  Breaking the libpq
> protocol does kind of suck.  I assume you're not requiring SSL for the
> GSSAPI stuff...

No, no requirement. But you would certainly expect it to use it if you
have SSL on the connection.

//Magnus



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