Re: Future of krb5 authentication

* Joshua D. Drake (jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com) wrote:
> Stephen Frost wrote:
>> * Joshua D. Drake (jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com) wrote:
>>> How many people actually use kerberos... How many people who are using
>>> kerberos are going to be running 7.3. 7.3 is no longer supported so by
>>> postgresql.org so who cares.
>> AOL, MIT, CMU, to name a few... I'm really annoyed at these constant
>> digs at what is really a very large userbase. Perhaps they're not all
>> running 7.3 but the implication that there's a small number of people
>> using Kerberos is just amazingly far off.
>
> *cough* , compared to the number of installations *not* using kerberos it
> is amazing that you would make such a far off correlation.

Oh, yea, and every place that uses Active Directory ..

> Note that we are talking about Kerberos + PostgreSQL, not Kerberose in
> general.

I was referring to your first question, which, in my view, is the more
appropriate one *anyway*. At least if you have a "PostgreSQL is going
to dominate the WORLD!" point of view, as I do. :)

Thanks,

Stephen