Re: GSS authentication support

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, JUNG, Christian wrote:

> I've implemented GSS authentication support for the PostgreSQL JDBC
> driver version 8.3-604.

I haven't looked at the patch in detail, but GSS support was added to the
just released 8.4 driver.  That support was based upon JAAS which is an
additional configuration pain, but your approach of importing
com.sun.security.auth.module.Krb5LoginModule isn't portable.

There's some limited documentation here on the current code:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jdbc/2008-01/msg00154.php
http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/84/connect.html#connection-parameters

Does it work for your needs?  Do you know any way to auto-configure this
without importing Sun specific code?  Regardless of any code changes your
documentation updates certainly seem like a welcome addition.

Kris Jurka