| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Nico Williams <nico(at)cryptonector(dot)com>, Robbie Harwood <rharwood(at)redhat(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH v20] GSSAPI encryption support |
| Date: | 2019-04-09 15:36:24 |
| Message-ID: | 20190409153624.t7cozlctjzuf47ja@momjian.us |
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On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 08:49:25AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 12:22 AM Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> wrote:
> Personally I don't find it as confusing as is either, and I find hostgss
> to be a good analog of hostssl. On the other hand hostgssenc is long and
> unintuitive. So +1 for leaving as is and -1 one for changing it IMHO.
>
>
> I think for those who are well versed in pg_hba (and maybe gss as well), it's
> not confusing. That includes me.
>
> However, for a new user, I can definitely see how it can be considered
> confusing. And confusion in *security configuration* is always a bad idea, even
> if it's just potential.
>
> Thus +1 on changing it.
>
> If it was on the table it might have been better to keep hostgss and change the
> authentication method to gssauth or something, but that ship sailed *years*
> ago.
Uh, did we consider keeping hostgss and changing the auth part at the
end to "gssauth"?
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