Re: JDBC and GSSAPI/Krb5

OK. I've been warned. ;-)

If I do it over Christmas vacation would that be soon enough?
Unfortunately work commitments have heated up, and I can't really
sneak time for it before then.

On Dec 5, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Kris Jurka wrote:

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> On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Peter Koczan wrote:
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>> I know this question has been asked before, but the answer might
>> have changed with the impending release of postgresql 8.3. Since
>> 8.3 supports GSSAPI authentication, and Java can talk to Kerberos
>> through GSSAPI (though not natively), is this feasible? I keep
>> getting this "authentication type 7 is not supported" errors, so I
>> know it's not currently supported. Are there any plans to have
>> GSSAPI support for the 8.3 JDBC driver, or are there showstoppers
>> in doing so?
>
> Henry Hotz, the person who contributed the GSSAPI support for the
> server, had plans to do the JDBC work as well, but I haven't seen
> anything from him. I've thought about working on it, but since I
> don't have any kerberos infrastructure setup, it's kind of a pain
> to get all that going. It's unclear how much work it will be, so it
> might get pushed to the 8.4 driver.
>
> Kris Jurka

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