Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Daniel Gustafsson
Subject Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER
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Msg-id 009AF2BB-F169-498C-A4DE-73D8E3001537@yesql.se
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In response to Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER  (Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER
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> On 29 Oct 2024, at 17:40, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 3:52 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>> Currently we don't support any conditional compilation which only affects
>> backend or frontend, all --without-XXX flags turn it off for both.
>
> I don't think that's strictly true; see --with-pam which affects only
> server-side code, since the hard part is in the server. Similarly,
> --with-oauth currently affects only client-side code.

Fair, maybe it's an unwarranted concern.  Question is though, if we added PAM
today would we have done the same?

> But in any case, that confusion is why I'm proposing a change to the
> option name.

+1

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Daniel Gustafsson




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