| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: GSSAPI doesn't play nice with non-canonical host names |
| Date: | 2008-01-28 13:25:10 |
| Message-ID: | 20080128132510.GE26468@svr2.hagander.net |
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On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:32:54PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> > While I'm complaining: that's got to be one of the least useful error
> > messages I've ever seen, and it's for a case that's surely going to be
> > fairly common in practice. Can't we persuade GSSAPI to produce
> > something more user-friendly? At least convert "7" to "Server not
> > found in Kerberos database"?
>
> I agree, and have found it to be very frustrating while working w/
> Kerberos in general. I *think* there's a library which can convert
> those error-codes (libcomm-err?), but I've not really looked into it
> yet.
AFAIK, that one is for Kerberos only. For GSSAPI, we already use the
gss_display_status function to get the error messages. I think the problem
here is in the Kerberos library?
//Magnus
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