Re: Preliminary GSSAPI Patches

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hbhotz(at)oxy(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Preliminary GSSAPI Patches
Date: 2007-05-22 15:39:13
Message-ID: 200705221539.l4MFdDb23049@momjian.us
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Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches

It will be applied as soon as one of the PostgreSQL committers reviews
and approves it.

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Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> I finally got to testing that updated patch. It's fine per-se, but
> was missing the updated README.GSSAPI file. Herewith fixed.
>

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> On May 12, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
> > These patches are updated as discussed to remove the incomplete
> > feature. Unfortunately I have a wedding to go to this weekend and
> > won't get them tested until next week. Will post when I've done so.
> >
> > On Mar 31, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> >
> >> These patches have been reasonably tested (and cross-tested) on
> >> Solaris 9 (SPARC) and MacOS 10.4 (both G4 and Intel) with the
> >> native GSSAPI libraries. They implement the gss-np and
> >> (incompletely) the gss authentication methods. Unlike the current
> >> krb5 method gssapi has native support in Java and (with the SSPI)
> >> on Windows.
> >>
> >> I still have bugs in the security layer for the gss method.
> >> Hopefully will finish getting them ironed out today or tomorrow.
> >>
> >> Documentation is in the README.GSSAPI file. Make sure you get it
> >> created when you apply the patches.
> >>
> >> <gss.patches.gz>
> >
> > <gss.patch2.bz2>
> >
> >
> > Just to cover the legal bases: I don't consider these changes to
> > be significant enough to require the involvement of the JPL
> > clearance process. JPL has already ruled that they do not fall
> > afoul of any ITAR restrictions.
> >
> > I am not imposing any license restrictions myself either, but some
> > credit in the release notes, or wherever, would be appreciated.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The opinions expressed in this message are mine,
> not those of Caltech, JPL, NASA, or the US Government.
> Henry(dot)B(dot)Hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov, or hbhotz(at)oxy(dot)edu
>
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