What are the benefits of SASL+Postgresql compared to Postgresql over plain SSL?
Coz Postgresql already supports SSL right? Cheerio, Link. At 03:11 PM 5/18/02 -0600, Bear Giles wrote: >If it's being used in Sendmail, Cyrus IMAP and OpenLDAP, with preliminary >work (sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University) in supporting it for CVS >and LPRng and possibly SSH I think it's safe to say it's beyond "vaporware" >at this point. >I'm aware of the various tricks you can do - setting the shell to >/bin/false, requiring RSA authentication and setting the no-tty flag >in the 'known_keys' file, etc., but at the end of the day there are >still extra shell accounts on that system. > >SSH tunnels are a good stopgap measure while you add true TLS/SSL >support, but they can't be considered a replacement for that support. > >Bear ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
