Re: SASL, compression?

What are the benefits of SASL+Postgresql compared to Postgresql over plain SSL?

Coz Postgresql already supports SSL right?

Cheerio,
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At 03:11 PM 5/18/02 -0600, Bear Giles wrote:
>If it's being used in Sendmail, Cyrus IMAP and OpenLDAP, with preliminary
>work (sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University) in supporting it for CVS
>and LPRng and possibly SSH I think it's safe to say it's beyond "vaporware"
>at this point.


>I'm aware of the various tricks you can do - setting the shell to
>/bin/false, requiring RSA authentication and setting the no-tty flag
>in the 'known_keys' file, etc., but at the end of the day there are
>still extra shell accounts on that system.
>
>SSH tunnels are a good stopgap measure while you add true TLS/SSL
>support, but they can't be considered a replacement for that support.
>
>Bear