Re: Postgresql 8.4 GSSAPI auth with fallback to password prompting?

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Tim Watts <tim(dot)j(dot)watts(at)kcl(dot)ac(dot)uk>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgresql 8.4 GSSAPI auth with fallback to password prompting?
Date: 2013-03-25 15:44:47
Message-ID: 20130325154447.GO4361@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Tim Watts (tim(dot)j(dot)watts(at)kcl(dot)ac(dot)uk) wrote:
> I wish I could help - but I more of a sysamdin and less of a developer.

So was I, until I ran into this annoying issue where a table could only
have one owner.. Then I added support for roles. :)

> A "negotiate" option would be very cool. I will expect nothing (on
> the basis it's free software, I have no rights ;-> ).

I'm open to possibly working on adding support for Negotiate (which is
actually a specific protocol..), if there's really interest in it. To
be honest, we've not heard this request very much and so it hasn't
exactly been on the radar.

> Save to say I think Postgresql is very cool already and has been for
> the last 12 years I've been using it...

Thanks!

Stephen

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