Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] Postgres 8.1.x and MIT Kerberos 5

2006-02-06 Thread Mohan K
Peter,It is chicken and egg problem, I still need to enable kerberos in the configure script to make sure proper pieces are picked up. But of coursethe configure script fails :).If I provide the relevant patches to configure.in script is that acceptable?thanksOn 2/6/06, Peter Eisentraut < [EMAIL P

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] Postgres 8.1.x and MIT Kerberos 5

2006-02-06 Thread Mohan K
Thanks.As far as using TLS, it is good approach. Although, we don't need complete channel encryption for every transaction or query. I am looking at a more granular approach whereI can decide depending on the security of information exchange whether to encrypt the channel or not (like using maybe

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] Postgres 8.1.x and MIT Kerberos 5

2006-02-06 Thread Mohan K
Hello Magnus,Regarding the configure issue: The platform is Tru64 Unix 5.1b, the problem I had was we havecompiled our Kerberos build statically and is installed in a directory other than the standard location. The trick adding to LIBS did not work as it (krb5support) library needs to come after th