Re: JDBC and GSSAPI/Krb5

From: "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov>
To: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Koczan <pjkoczan(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: JDBC and GSSAPI/Krb5
Date: 2007-12-07 07:26:45
Message-ID: E1E5362E-41F5-45AC-B33D-75B946324766@jpl.nasa.gov
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On Dec 6, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Kris Jurka wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
>> If they are wire-compatible then there is no reason to use a
>> different value on the wire to differentiate them. This is the
>> point that I said I didn't understand.
>>
>
> I think the point is that a client using the SSPI library can
> operate wire-compatibly with a server using the GSSSPI library, but
> that only happens with the auth type of "gss". When the "sspi"
> auth type is used, that signals to a client using the SSPI library
> to do something non wire-compatible and that's why the two auth
> types are used.
>
> Kris Jurka

I'm not enough of a Windows person to know if that makes sense. I'll
ask Magnus when I get far enough it matters. I think my choices are
to ignore the difference or to only support the two GSS types.

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