Re: Fwd: [PATCHES] Preliminary GSSAPI Patches

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCHES] Preliminary GSSAPI Patches
Date: 2007-05-01 21:37:49
Message-ID: 860.1178055469@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Henry B. Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov> writes:
> Windows? I don't do Windows, so I'm guessing.

> If you accept that Microsoft's SSPI is a flavor of GSSAPI, then
> GSSAPI is more widely supported and probably more stable on Windows
> machines than OpenSSL is.

I can't speak to the situation on Windows either; if OpenSSL isn't
commonly used on Windows that may be a sufficient reason for supporting
GSSAPI too. I'm just unconvinced by any argument that suggests we'll
replace our SSL support with it.

regards, tom lane

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