Re: krb_server_keyfile setting doesn't work on Windows - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: krb_server_keyfile setting doesn't work on Windows
Date
Msg-id 9837222c0912301557i377d91bcpef8d98d402badea7@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: krb_server_keyfile setting doesn't work on Windows  (Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp>)
Responses Re: krb_server_keyfile setting doesn't work on Windows  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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2009/12/31 Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp>:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>> 2009/12/30 Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp>:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As far as I tested, the krb_server_keyfile setting
>>> in postgres.conf doesn't work on Windows.
>>>
>>> Because gssapi32.dll(krb5_32.dll) seems to call
>>> getenv("KRB5_KTNAME") in msvcr71, postgres.exe
>>> should call putenv("KRB5_KTNAME=...") in msvcr71.
>>> The attached patch fixes the problem in my test
>>> case.
>>
>> Isn't the main backend linked with msvcr71.dll anyway?
>
> What main backend directly links is msvcr80 or msvcr90
> according to the msvc build environment.

Arrgh. My bad, I thought msvcr71 was vs2005. Now that you put it like
this, I know it's vs2003.


>> Then the
>> regular putenv should put it in th eenv of  msvcr71.dll, and the stuff
>> that's wrapped through src/port/win32env.c will put it in the regular
>> msvcr file.
>>
>> I wonder if you're possibly being hit with the bug I patched the other
>> day, but didn't backpatch.
>> (http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=f8bcd7220b1166f7c037ceaf0a53958cbc6a7630).
>>
>> Can you see if that fix solves your problem as well? (Either directly
>> or by testing HEAD)
>
> I'm testing using the current cvs.
>
>> If not, the fix should still go in win32env.c, not directly in auth.c
>
> I don't object to it. Possibly we would have to add msvcr80 or
>  msvcr90 as well in the future.

To be safe, yes, we should have that. Do you want to work on such a
complete solution, or should I look at it?

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