On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Peter Koczan <pjkoc...@gmail.com> writes: >> It was rather convenient to know that whatever Kerberos principal was >> used was going to be the database user. > > Isn't that still true? (Modulo the auth.c bug fix of course.) The only > issue here is where the default guess for a not-explicitly-specified > username comes from, not whether you'll be allowed to connect or not.
That's what I meant. It was convenient to have the default guess be the Kerberos principal for krb5/gss connections. This is still the case in the vast majority of connections, so it's probably not worth bending over backwards to satisfy these edge cases. Sorry for the confusion. Peter -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
