Re: JDBC and GSSAPI/Krb5

On Dec 6, 2007 1:47 PM, Peter Koczan <pjkoczan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2007 1:10 PM, Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> > Thank you.  I'm looking at it.
> >
> > I think the changes *should* be localized to v3/
> > ConnectionFactoryImpl.java.  I need to see how Magnus changed the
> > wire protocol (he did it differently from what I did), and I need to
> > try a sample program first so I can debug wire/API issues
> > independently from PG issues.
> >
> > I will not even attempt to address the SSPI auth mechanism since I
> > don't understand fully why it exists.  SSPI is supposed to just be an
> > alternate C binding for the GSSAPI wire protocol, but there are other
> > issues that confound that statement.  I believe that Java should
> > stick to the standard, at least initially.
>
> http://people.planetpostgresql.org/mha/index.php?/archives/155-Integrated-Security-in-PostgreSQL-8.3.html
>
> According to this, SSPI is a Windows-only thing (for both clients and
> servers). Apparently each can authenticate against a "gss" entry in
> pg_hba.conf.
>
> I don't know what implications that has for support in the JDBC
> driver. I'll let you figure that out :-).

Oh, and by "each" I mean both SSPI and GSSAPI.

B'oh.

Peter