This being SASL: > > I know I tried to make > > it work on win32 once and failed miserably. (Then again, I've > failed > > on Linux as well, but not quite as bad. And it's not included in > all > > Linux distributions, at least it wasn't when I checked a while > back) > > Well, I know Redhat has RPM's that look reasonable. I'm not a big > Linux user myself. (More a BSD bigot, to be honest.)
Well, Redhat != Linux, really :P Over to GSSAPI: > In theory, you get to plug in other mechanisms than Kerberos. In > practice I think this only worked on Solaris, until very recently. FWIW, Microsoft have supported NTLM over GSSAPI since.. eh. Back in 1999, I guess, with the first pre-releases of Windows 2000. > Wire compatibility with a native Windows API (the SSPI), if it's > used correctly. (Google for posts by Jeffrey Altman for references > to example code.) This, IMHO, is a big win if we can pull it off. It would significantly lower the barrier for getting Kerberos working properly in pg on Win32. //Magnus ---------------------------(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