Re: [HACKERS] GSSAPI doesn't play nice with non-canonical host names

2008-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:32:54PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: >>> While I'm complaining: that's got to be one of the least useful error >>> messages I've ever seen, and it's for a case that's surely going to be >>> fairly common in practice. Can't we

Re: [HACKERS] GSSAPI doesn't play nice with non-canonical host names

2008-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> While I'm complaining: that's got to be one of the least useful error >>> messages I've ever seen, and it's for a case that's surely going to be >>> fairly common in practice. > AFAIK, that one is for Kerberos only. For GSSAPI, we already use the > g

Re: [HACKERS] GSSAPI doesn't play nice with non-canonical host names

2008-01-28 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:32:54PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > While I'm complaining: that's got to be one of the least useful error > > messages I've ever seen, and it's for a case that's surely going to be > > fairly common in practice. Can't we persuade GSSAPI to produce > > something mo

Re: [HACKERS] GSSAPI doesn't play nice with non-canonical host names

2008-01-28 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:51:48PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Whilst trying to reproduce bug #3902 I noticed that the code doesn't > >> work with an abbreviated host name: > > > Testing w/ 8.3RC2, everything see

Re: [HACKERS] GSSAPI doesn't play nice with non-canonical host names

2008-01-27 Thread Tom Lane
Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Whilst trying to reproduce bug #3902 I noticed that the code doesn't >> work with an abbreviated host name: > Testing w/ 8.3RC2, everything seems to be working fine here: Okay, that probably means there's somethi

Re: [HACKERS] GSSAPI doesn't play nice with non-canonical host names

2008-01-27 Thread Stephen Frost
* Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Whilst trying to reproduce bug #3902 I noticed that the code doesn't > work with an abbreviated host name: > > $ psql -l -h rh2.sss.pgh.pa.us >List of databases >... everything's fine ... > > $ psql -l -h rh2 > psql: GSSAPI con

[HACKERS] GSSAPI doesn't play nice with non-canonical host names

2008-01-27 Thread Tom Lane
Whilst trying to reproduce bug #3902 I noticed that the code doesn't work with an abbreviated host name: $ psql -l -h rh2.sss.pgh.pa.us List of databases ... everything's fine ... $ psql -l -h rh2 psql: GSSAPI continuation error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code ma