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From: Stephen Frost <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: --with-gssapi requiring MIT Kerberos
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 09:01:20 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Greetings buildfarm-members,

* Stephen Frost ([email protected]) wrote:
> While it hasn't gone in quite yet, the plan is to start requiring MIT
> Kerberos with the Kerberos credential delegation support.  I anticipate
> committing that later today or perhaps tomorrow.

This change has now been committed.

> What this means for buildfarm members is that if you currently have
> --with-gssapi enabled, you'll need to make sure that you have MIT
> Kerberos installed.  This is generally available as 'krb5' on most
> platforms (libkrb5-dev on Ubuntu/Debian is the development package, on
> FreeBSD it's the krb5 package, for example).
> 
> Additionally, if your buildfarm system has the resources for it and the
> localhost network is secure, it'd be great if you would consider
> enabling the Kerberos tests in PG_TEST_EXTRA.  This requires having the
> MIT KDC and Kerberos client packages installed also, but we are then
> able to actually do a full test of the Kerberos system.

Any questions, please feel free to ask.

Thanks!

Stephen


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