Re: Windows binary install and gssapi support

From: Grant McKenzie <grant(dot)r(dot)mckenzie(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Grant McKenzie <mckenzig(at)optonline(dot)net>, psycopg(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Windows binary install and gssapi support
Date: 2018-04-19 02:21:26
Message-ID: CAEDmdPKaVE3Tms1p9z3kgYyvMRd_OeZGu=Hq=cCPPS-pkMUbSQ@mail.gmail.com
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Hello Stephen,

in a heterogeneous environment with a server running on linux and a mix of
clients running on windows and linux, would you not want to use GSSAPI?

Thanks.

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 12:00 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> * Grant McKenzie (mckenzig(at)optonline(dot)net) wrote:
> > That said, the predominance of Kerberos authentication in enterprises
> these
> > days would make support of this a welcome addition I'm sure.
>
> We always build with SSPI on Windows platforms.
>
> You don't really need (or want) GSSAPI on Windows systems because we've
> got SSPI there..
>
> Is there some reason that people are trying to get GSSAPI on Windows
> instead of just using SSPI..? I'd expect that to be very rare these
> days..
>
> Thanks!
>
> Stephen
>

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