Re: Future of krb5 authentication

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Future of krb5 authentication
Date: 2007-07-18 17:42:58
Message-ID: 469E5122.2040208@commandprompt.com
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Joshua D. Drake (jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com) wrote:
>>> OK, well thats a problem. pgAdmin supports back to 7.3...
>> How many people actually use kerberos... How many people who are using
>> kerberos are going to be running 7.3. 7.3 is no longer supported so by
>> postgresql.org so who cares.
>
> AOL, MIT, CMU, to name a few... I'm really annoyed at these constant
> digs at what is really a very large userbase. Perhaps they're not all
> running 7.3 but the implication that there's a small number of people
> using Kerberos is just amazingly far off.

*cough* , compared to the number of installations *not* using kerberos
it is amazing that you would make such a far off correlation.

Note that we are talking about Kerberos + PostgreSQL, not Kerberose in
general.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen

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