Re: Preliminary GSSAPI Patches

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

    http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches

It will be applied as soon as one of the PostgreSQL committers reviews
and approves it.

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Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> These patches have been reasonably tested (and cross-tested) on
> Solaris 9 (SPARC) and MacOS 10.4 (both G4 and Intel) with the native
> GSSAPI libraries.  They implement the gss-np and (incompletely) the
> gss authentication methods.  Unlike the current krb5 method gssapi
> has native support in Java and (with the SSPI) on Windows.
>
> I still have bugs in the security layer for the gss method.
> Hopefully will finish getting them ironed out today or tomorrow.
>
> Documentation is in the README.GSSAPI file.  Make sure you get it
> created when you apply the patches.
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