Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-03-04T22:37:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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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 Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM Jacob Champion
<jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> ktruss shows absolutely no syscall activity on the authorization
> server during the failing test, because Curl's talking to something
> else. sockstat confirms that I completely forgot to listen on IPv6 in
> the test server. Dual stack sockets only work from the IPv6
> direction...
>
> There must be some law of conservation of weirdness, where the
> strangest failure modes have the most boring explanations. I'll work
> on a fix.

Heh, wow, that was confusing :-)  Actually I'm still confused (why
passing sometimes then?) but I'm sure all will become clear with your
patch...

> On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think that is telling us that a non-blocking socket can be in a
> > state that is not yet connected enough even to tell you its local
> > address?  That is, connect() returns without having allocated a local
> > address, and does that part asynchronously too?  I don't know what to
> > think about that yet...
>
> That is also really good to know, though. So that EINVAL message
> might, in the end, be completely unrelated to the bug? (Curl doesn't
> worry about the error, looks like, just prints it to the debug
> stream.)

Yeah.  I wonder if it only happens if the connection is doomed to fail
already, or something.  But I don't plan to dig further if it's
harmless (maybe curl shouldn't really do that, IDK).