On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: >> Since Simon stirred up a hornets nest suggesting deprecation of a >> number of features, I figured I'd take it one step further and suggest >> removal of some previously deprecated features :) >> >> In particular, we made a couple of changes over sveral releases back >> in the authentication config, that we should perhaps consider >> finishing by removing the old stuff now? >> >> 1. krb5 authentication. We've had gssapi since 8.3 (which means in all >> supported versions). krb5 has been deprecated, also since 8.3. Time to >> remove it? > > That seems like a sufficiently long deprecation window, but is gssapi > a full substitute for krb5? I don't really have a strong opinion on > this, not being a user myself.
I'm pretty sure that it is. Stephen, you usually have comments about the Kerberos stuff - want to comment on this one? :) -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
