Re: JDBC and GSSAPI/Krb5

On Dec 6, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Kris Jurka wrote:

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>
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
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>> If they are wire-compatible then there is no reason to use a
>> different value on the wire to differentiate them.  This is the
>> point that I said I didn't understand.
>>
>
> I think the point is that a client using the SSPI library can
> operate wire-compatibly with a server using the GSSSPI library, but
> that only happens with the auth type of "gss".  When the "sspi"
> auth type is used, that signals to a client using the SSPI library
> to do something non wire-compatible and that's why the two auth
> types are used.
>
> Kris Jurka

I'm not enough of a Windows person to know if that makes sense.  I'll
ask Magnus when I get far enough it matters.  I think my choices are
to ignore the difference or to only support the two GSS types.

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