Thread: Re: [HACKERS] Kerberos brokenness and oops question in 8.1beta2

Re: [HACKERS] Kerberos brokenness and oops question in 8.1beta2

From
"Magnus Hagander"
Date:
> > Previously, we set pg_krb5_server to NULL, which is something
> > completely different than pg_krb_srvname=NULL (yes, they are named
> > very closely, but they are completely different things).
> > krb5_sname_to_principal() was never called.
> >
> > This is what wasn't working for me.
> >
> > > I have applied the following patch which updates the
> documentation
> > > to reflect 'localhost', and improves the error message to always
> > > print the server name as well as the service name.  (We have had
> > > complaints about poor Kerberos error messages before.)
> >
> > This is not correct.
> > The default is *not* "localhost". It's the "local host name". As in
> > what's returned by gethostname().
>
> Ah, local host name, not localhost.  Poor wording.  Text updated:
>
>     If not set, the default is the server hostname.  See <xref
>     linkend="kerberos-auth"> for details.  This parameter
> can only be set at
>     server start.

I htink you need to update the .c file as well - you changed a message
there to read "localhost" last time around.

//Magnus