Re: Future of krb5 authentication

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Future of krb5 authentication
Date: 2007-07-18 11:12:03
Message-ID: 469DF583.4090302@postgresql.org
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:57:19AM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>> libpq would still work against older server versions, right?
>>> Not once krb5 is removed. Assuming the older server version used krb5 auth.
>> OK, well thats a problem. pgAdmin supports back to 7.3...
>
> You have a similar problem there already - 8.1 removed support for Kerberos
> 4, so if your 7.3 server is configged with krb4, you loose anyway.

We never shipped krb4 support in any of our self contained binary
distros (I'm not counting those which rely on external libpq packages).

Regards, Dave

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