problem in installing postgresql with kerberos in HP-UX

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Thu Aug 29 20:22:41 EDT 2002


>>>>> "James" == James Camaron <james343us at yahoo.com> writes:

    James> Hello All, Anybody installed postgresql with kerberos in
    James> HP-UX-11.x ?

Please do not use the Postgres Kerberos support.  It is insecure in
multiple ways.  It does not perform mutual authentication nor does it
integrity protect or encrypt the connections.  The authorization
identity is not even bound to the authentication identity.

In short Postgres could be significantly improved if the maintainers
were convinced to remove Kerberos support.




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