Re: 8.3 GSS Issues

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 8.3 GSS Issues
Date: 2007-10-25 13:06:09
Message-ID: 20071025130609.GF24892@svr2.hagander.net
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:26:47AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:51:04PM -0700, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
> > > At the risk of diluting my message: I still think it's a mistake to
> > > call it gss instead of something like gss-noprot. I believe this
> > > will cause misunderstandings in the future when we get the security
> > > layer of gssapi implemented.
> >
> > Well, I don't agree with this, but if others want it changed, it can
> > certainly be changed. And it can only be changed *now*, and not once we
> > release.
> >
> > But we have "host" and "hostssl", not "hostnossl" and "host". So the way we
> > are donig it now is IMO more consistent with what we have in other parts of pg.
>
> Actually we have "hostssl", "hostnossl" and "host".

Good point. But the line that corresponds to what is currently called "gss"
is "host" :)

//Magnus

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