Re: JDBC and GSSAPI/Krb5

On Jan 30, 2008, at 12:59 AM, Kris Jurka wrote:

> Additionally there is a means of providing this configuration in
> code form (which I've yet to test), but that only works on 1.5+
> while GSSAPI works on 1.4 as well.  Further as you can tell from
> the above configuration, it's specific to the JVM you're running
> on.  You wouldn't use com.sun.* on a non-Sun JVM.  Finally people
> may want different options enabled in the config, so hardcoding
> this doesn't work from that perspective either:

I wouldn't worry toooo much about 1.4.  It has a lot of issues,
including only supporting single DES encryption types.  The only
"current" platform I deal with that uses 1.4 is Solaris 9, and it's
pretty easy to provide a newer JVM on a Sun.

Ideally the code should provide reasonable (overwriteable) defaults
wherever possible.

More later.
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