| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov> |
| Cc: | Louis Bertrand <louis(at)bertrandtech(dot)on(dot)ca>, Gene Sokolov <hook(at)aktrad(dot)ru>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Password thread (was: Re: [HACKERS] Updated TODO list) |
| Date: | 1999-07-16 02:22:19 |
| Message-ID: | 199907160222.WAA09619@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> I wish I could recommend kerberos (which we already claim to support), but
> the implementations I've seen seem buggy. NetBSD and Solaris both have it
> built in, but there are subroutine name conflicts between the kerberos
> libraries and some standard libraries on both platforms (different
> conflicts). I think it's an example of good US technology being destroyed
> by the ITAR restrictions. The overseas NetBSD developers, and a large
> fraction of the US ones, don't touch the kerberos stuff, so it suffers
> bitrot. Excuse the rant.
>
Totally agree kerberos is a great way to go, if we can.
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