Tom, Josh, etc.: > But if you're looking for a "big application" that uses Kerberos, > there's that pesky thing called Windows. Every single Windows machine in > an active directory domain environment is a Kerberos client, and uses > Kerberos for authentication to all network services.
Kerberos with GSSAPI is also widely used for Solaris, so supporting it helps a lot in getting a large proportion of Solaris users to adopt PostgreSQL. > So Kerberos is definitly big. And more and more apps do support GSSAPI > for authentication. Not that many apps support "raw kerberos" as pgsql > does, probably because it does have some compatibility issues and such > things. Yes ... if we were looking to cut down on both code and dependency bugs, we might consider desupporting "raw Kerberos". At this point, I think that everyone who supports Kerberos supports GSSAPI, unless we're still committed to supporting users of Red Hat 7.0 (Tom?). -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match