Re: Fwd: [PATCHES] Preliminary GSSAPI Patches

Don't you want to maintain some interoperability between 8.2 client/
server and 8.3 server/client at least? If you put my patches in 8.3,
and they work as well as I hope, then "in time" could be as soon as
8.4, I suppose.

To answer the question more directly: I do not know of any platform
that supports the "native" Kerb5 API that doesn't also support GSSAPI
for the simple reason that a Kerberos-only version of GSSAPI has been
bundled with both the MIT and Heimdal distributions for as long as I
can remember.

On Apr 30, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov> writes:
>> I tend to regard this as a comparable migration to the Kerb4 -> Kerb5
>> one. In time it should be a complete replacement. In time we will
>> be able to rip out the existing Kerb5 code.
>
> Why "in time" and not immediately? Are there platforms that don't
> support the GSSAPI interface? If so, how would we ever retire the
> old code?
>
> regards, tom lane

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