Re: [PATCH v2] GSSAPI encryption support

Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>

From: Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-09-09T16:44:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Robbie Harwood wrote:
>> Michael Paquier writes:
>> As promised, here's a V2 to address your issues with comments.  I
>> haven't heard back on the issues you found in testing, so no other
>> changes are present.
>
> Well, the issue is still here: login through gssapi fails with your
> patch, not with HEAD. This patch is next on my review list by the way
> so I'll see what I can do about it soon even if I am in the US for
> Postgres Open next week. Still, how did you test it? I am just
> creating by myself a KDC, setting up a valid credential with kinit,
> and after setting up Postgres for this purpose the protocol
> communication just fails.

My KDC is setup through freeIPA; I create a service for postgres,
acquire a keytab, set it in the config file, and fire up the server.  It
should go without saying that this is working for me, which is why I
asked you for more information so I could try to debug.  I wrote a post
on this back in June when this was still in development:
http://mivehind.net/page/view-page-slug/16/postgres-kerberos

Commits

  1. GSSAPI encryption support

  2. Fix typo