Re: Preliminary GSSAPI Patches

From: "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hbhotz(at)oxy(dot)edu>
To: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Preliminary GSSAPI Patches
Date: 2007-05-12 16:53:49
Message-ID: 795AB0C3-71DA-4DE3-9B37-69671ECD7C37@oxy.edu
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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>

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