Re: PostgreSQL and Kerberos 5 on Solaris

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <James(dot)Gates(at)Sun(dot)COM>, <pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL and Kerberos 5 on Solaris
Date: 2006-10-05 07:33:01
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA35789@algol.sollentuna.se
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That's because Tom applied a patch for this already:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-07/msg00080.php

//Magnus

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> owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 5:20 AM
> To: Henry B. Hotz
> Cc: Tom Lane; James(dot)Gates(at)Sun(dot)COM; pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [PORTS] PostgreSQL and Kerberos 5 on Solaris
>
>
> I cannot find krb5_encrypt() referenced anywhere in configure, or
> anywhere else in CVS HEAD, nor in any of the back branches.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------
>
> Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> > Never saw a followup on this.
> >
> > I'd suggest krb5_init_context() since it's the first thing any
> > Kerberos app needs to do, and the returned context value is used
> on
> > 99% of all other calls. That's assuming that there aren't other
> > kerberos checks that make it unnecessary of course.
> >
> > On Jul 2, 2006, at 8:39 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > James Gates <James(dot)Gates(at)Sun(dot)COM> writes:
> > >> Does anyone know why the check for krb5_encrypt() exists in
> > >> configure when the code doesn't use it?
> > >
> > > At the time it was chosen, it was probably a reasonable choice
> of
> > > function to probe for to make sure Kerberos libraries are
> present.
> > > Do you have a better suggestion?
> > >
> > > regards, tom lane
> >
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