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Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-02-28T21:52:40Z
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  1. meson: Fix install-quiet after clean

  2. oauth: Run Autoconf tests with correct compiler flags

  3. Link libpq with libdl if the platform needs that.

  4. Doc: correct spelling of meson switch.

  5. oauth: Correct SSL dependency for libpq-oauth.a

  6. oauth: Fix Autoconf build on macOS

  7. oauth: Move the builtin flow into a separate module

  8. Remove a stray "pgrminclude" annotation

  9. oauth: Simplify copy of PGoauthBearerRequest

  10. oauth: Improve validator docs on interruptibility

  11. oauth: Disallow synchronous DNS in libcurl

  12. oauth: Fix postcondition for set_timer on macOS

  13. oauth: Use IPv4-only issuer in oauth_validator tests

  14. Work around OAuth/EVFILT_TIMER quirk on NetBSD.

  15. oauth: Fix incorrect const markers in struct

  16. Add missing entry to oauth_validator test .gitignore

  17. cirrus: Temporarily fix libcurl link error

  18. Add support for OAUTHBEARER SASL mechanism

  19. libpq: Handle asynchronous actions during SASL

  20. require_auth: prepare for multiple SASL mechanisms

  21. Move PG_MAX_AUTH_TOKEN_LENGTH to libpq/auth.h

  22. Make SASL max message length configurable

  23. jsonapi: fully initialize dummy lexer

  24. common/jsonapi: support libpq as a client

  25. Remove fe_memutils from libpgcommon_shlib

  26. Revert ECPG's use of pnstrdup()

  27. Explicitly require password for SCRAM exchange

  28. Refactor SASL exchange to return tri-state status

> On 28 Feb 2024, at 22:50, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> 
> On 2024-02-28 We 09:05, Jacob Champion wrote:
>> 
>> Daniel and I discussed trying a Python version of the test server,
>> since the standard library there should give us more goodies to work
>> with. A proof of concept is in 0009. I think the big question I have
>> for it is, how would we communicate what we want the server to do for
>> the test? (We could perhaps switch on magic values of the client ID?)
>> In the end I'd like to be testing close to 100% of the failure modes,
>> and that's likely to mean a lot of back-and-forth if the server
>> implementation isn't in the Perl process.
> 
> Can you give some more details about what this python gadget would buy us? I note that there are a couple of CPAN modules that provide OAuth2 servers, not sure if they would be of any use.

The main benefit would be to be able to provide a full testharness without
adding any additional dependencies over what we already have (Python being
required by meson).  That should ideally make it easy to get good coverage from
BF animals as no installation is needed.

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Daniel Gustafsson