| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov>, Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: JAVA Support |
| Date: | 2006-09-29 04:18:59 |
| Message-ID: | 451C9EB3.4020605@commandprompt.com |
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Henry,
>
>> Sun demonstrated that you could build the existing Kerberos support
>> with the current Solaris 11 beta's. They opened the "native" MIT
>> Kerberos API for outside use.
>
> Yes, and this will be available via the supported version in Solaris 10 Update
> 4.
>
> However, that doesn't change that some people would like us to support GSSAPI,
> and there may be some benefit (additional applications, better network
> authentication, etc.) for doing so. If we can get additional programmers to
> code the support (i.e. Sun, JPL) I don't see any reason not to support the
> *additional* authentication methods.
Is there any reason why we haven't built a generic authentication API?
Something like PAM, except cross platform?
Joshua D. Drake
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