Re: PostgreSQL and Kerberos 5 on Solaris

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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