Re: Fwd: [PATCHES] Preliminary GSSAPI Patches

Don't you want to maintain some interoperability between 8.2 client/ 
server and 8.3 server/client at least?  If you put my patches in 8.3,  
and they work as well as I hope, then "in time" could be as soon as  
8.4, I suppose.

To answer the question more directly:  I do not know of any platform  
that supports the "native" Kerb5 API that doesn't also support GSSAPI  
for the simple reason that a Kerberos-only version of GSSAPI has been  
bundled with both the MIT and Heimdal distributions for as long as I  
can remember.

On Apr 30, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov> writes:
>> I tend to regard this as a comparable migration to the Kerb4 -> Kerb5
>> one.  In time it should be a complete replacement.  In time we will
>> be able to rip out the existing Kerb5 code.
>
> Why "in time" and not immediately?  Are there platforms that don't
> support the GSSAPI interface?  If so, how would we ever retire the
> old code?
>
>             regards, tom lane

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