Sean Chittenden wrote: > > > > > auth.c: In function `pg_krb5_recvauth': > > > > > auth.c:294: structure has no member named `user' > > > > > > > > Ooops, my fault --- I didn't build with Kerberos support after > > > > changing those field names. > > > > > > > > Now that I think about it, there might be similar omissions in the > > > > PAM or Kerberos4 support --- can anyone try those? > > > > > > krb4 code should be removed from PostgreSQL ASAP for various > > > insecurities in the protocol. It's been removed from FreeBSD, MIT, > > > and Heimdal's code base and is officially unsupported as of June this > > > year. -sc > > > > I have added the following to our documentation in the Kerberos section: > > > > <para> > > While <productname>PostgreSQL</> supports both Kerberos 4 and > > Kerberos 5, only Kerberos 5 is recommended. Kerberos 4 is > > considered insecure and no longer recommended for general > > use. > > </para> > > iirc, we were going to depreciate kerberos 4 in the 7.4 release notes > and remove support for it for 7.5, giving users one full release cycle > to move to krb5. > > There any plans to include the appropriate verbiage to allow for krb4's > future deorbit?
I don't remember any agreement to remove krb4 in 7.5. Am I wrong? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
