Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Wolfgang Walther <walther@technowledgy.de>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Date: 2025-04-08T16:49:58Z
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  8, 2025 at 09:43:01AM -0700, Jacob Champion wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr  8, 2025 at 09:17:03AM -0700, Jacob Champion wrote:
> > > It allows packagers to ship the OAuth library separately, so end users
> > > that don't want the additional exposure don't have to install it at
> > > all.
> >
> > Okay, so how would they do that?  I understand how that would happen if
> > it was an external extension, but how if it is under /src or /contrib.
> 
> By adding the new .so to a different package. For example, RPM specs
> would just let you say "hey, this .so I just built doesn't go into the
> main client package, it goes into an add-on that depends on the client
> package." It's the same way separate client and server packages get
> generated from the same single build of Postgres.

Do we have any idea how many packagers are interested in doing this?

> > Would we have to put out minor releases for curl CVEs?
> 
> In general, no.

Good.

FYI, I saw bug bounty dollar amounts next to each curl CVE:

	https://curl.se/docs/security.html

No wonder some people ask for bounties.

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