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Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
To: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>, Wolfgang Walther <walther@technowledgy.de>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Date: 2025-04-15T19:44:48Z
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, Apr 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
> What made me reconsider was Peter saying that what defines the blast
> radius of some feature is usually the extra dependency pulled in. If
> you don't like tracking OpenSSL problems, build without it. If you
> don't like libcurl, build without it. That's the "we are going to be
> hated by security scanner people" argument that brought up this
> sub-thread.
>
> Now if the feature itself were a problem, that might change how
> configuration should be working. Is "libpq can now initiate oauth
> requests" something people would like to be able to control?

Well... I'd sure like to live in a world where users thought about the
implications and risks of what they're using and why, rather than
farming a decision out to a static analysis tool. ("And as long as I'm
dreaming, I'd like a pony.")

But end users already control the initiation of OAuth requests (it's
opt-in via the connection string), so that's not really the goal.

> Debian does not care really about static libs. We are currently
> shipping libpq.a, but if it breaks in any funny way, we might as well
> remove it.

Awesome. I think we have a consensus.

Thanks!
--Jacob