Re: Future of krb5 authentication

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Future of krb5 authentication
Date: 2007-07-18 13:01:26
Message-ID: 200707181501.28368.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 13:21 schrieb Magnus Hagander:
> The main reasons would be to have less code to maintain,

I don't think the krb5 support has needed all that much maintenance in the
last few years.

> and to make life
> easier for packagers. For example, win32 would no longer need to ship the
> kerberos binaries in the package (and update it properly etc).

Nobody is forcing anyone to ship anything anyway.

> But sure, we might leave it in there until there's a direct problem with it
> (other than the ones we already know). Can I still get my deprecation of it
> though? ;-)

You might want to inquire about that on -general.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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