Re: 10 weeks to feature freeze (Pending Work)

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

To: "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>

Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>

Date: 2007-01-29T17:49:28Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> Henry B. Hotz:  GSSAPI authentication method for C (FE/BE) and Java (FE).
> Magnus Haglander:  SSPI (GSSAPI compatible) authentication method for C
> (FE) on Windows.
> 
> (That fair Magnus? Or you want to volunteer for BE support as well?)

Seems fair and about what we discussed. And no, I won't volunteer as
long as you're on it - not sure I'll have the time to do it all in time.

> GSSAPI isn't much more than a functional replacement for Kerberos 5, but
> it's supported on lots more platforms.  In particular Java and Windows
> have native support (as well as Solaris 9).

Yeah, getting rid of the dependency on MIT KRB5 on windows would be very
nice indeeed.

//Magnus