Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

Jacob Champion <champion.p@gmail.com>

From: Jacob Champion <champion.p@gmail.com>
To: daniel@yesql.se
Cc: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com>, mahendrakar s <mahendrakarforpg@gmail.com>, Andrey Chudnovsky <achudnovskij@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, "hlinnaka@iki.fi" <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, "michael@paquier.xyz" <michael@paquier.xyz>, "smilingsamay@gmail.com" <smilingsamay@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Date: 2024-01-09T18:48:55Z
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 Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 1:44 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>
> > On 8 Nov 2023, at 20:00, Jacob Champion <champion.p@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately the configure/Makefile build of libpq now seems to be
> > pulling in an `exit()` dependency in a way that Meson does not.
>
> I believe this comes from the libcurl and specifically the ntlm_wb support
> which is often enabled in system and package manager provided installations.
> There isn't really a fix here apart from requiring a libcurl not compiled with
> ntlm_wb support, or adding an exception to the exit() check in the Makefile.
>
> Bringing this up with other curl developers to see if it could be fixed we
> instead decided to deprecate the whole module as it's quirky and not used much.
> This won't help with existing installations but at least it will be deprecated
> and removed by the time v17 ships, so gating on a version shipped after its
> removal will avoid it.
>
> https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/04540f69cfd4bf16e80e7c190b645f1baf505a84

Ooh, thank you for looking into that and fixing it!

> > (Or maybe Meson isn't checking?) I still need to investigate that
> > difference and fix it, so I recommend Meson if you're looking to
> > test-drive a build.
>
> There is no corresponding check in the Meson build, which seems like a TODO.

Okay, I'll look into that too when I get time.

Thanks,
--Jacob