Re: Re: kerberos 5 patch against 7.0RC5

This was applied in 7.1.


> On Thu, 11 May 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> >Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> Can someone comment on this patch?  It looks good to me.
> >
> >Looks like a rather major rewrite of the Kerberos support --- do we feel
> >comfortable cramming this into 7.0.1?  Seems like putting it into the
> >7.1 cycle might be the prudent course, so that it will get some beta
> >testing before being loosed upon the world.  (Alternatively, if a couple
> >other Kerberos users want to try it and report back, I'd feel better
> >about dropping it into 7.0.* ...)
> >
> 
> I'm quite happy for it to sit in the contrib section for people who want
> to try it out until its been tested on more than one site. Now that
> RedHat are shipping kerberos with 6.2, I figured it wasn't really fair
> to keep this implementation all to ourselves. David Wragg, the guy who
> actually did the work, has a few things he wants to tidy up, but I don't
> see that happening for a couple of months at the earliest. The current
> code is reliable and stable, and can coexist with non-kerberized
> postgres libs and binaries.
> 
> As you point out, it is quite a reworking of the existing code. We
> couldn't get postgres to compile against MIT kerberos V5 includes and
> libraries, let alone run. Hence this patch. If anyone is using the
> current V5 support, I would love to know how they're doing it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike
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