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Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>

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From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Date: 2025-03-31T14:06:49Z
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

Re: Andres Freund
> > Yes.  Also, none of this has addressed my complaint about the extent
> > of the build and install dependencies.  Yes, simply not selecting
> > --with-libcurl removes the problem ... but most packagers are under
> > very heavy pressure to enable all features of a package.

And this feature is kind of only useful if it's available anywhere. If
only half of your clients are able to use SSO, you'd probably stick
with passwords anyway. So it needs to be enabled by default.

> How about we provide the current libpq.so without linking to curl and also a
> libpq-oauth.so that has curl support? If we do it right libpq-oauth.so would
> itself link to libpq.so, making libpq-oauth.so a fairly small library.
> 
> That way packagers can split libpq-oauth.so into a separate package, while
> still just building once.

That's definitely a good plan. The blast radius of build dependencies
isn't really a problem, the install/run-time is.

Perhaps we could do the same with libldap and libgssapi? (Though
admittedly I have never seen any complaints or nagging questions from
security people about these.)

Christoph