Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-02-28T21:50:23Z
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 2024-02-28 We 09:05, Jacob Champion wrote:
>
> Daniel and I discussed trying a Python version of the test server,
> since the standard library there should give us more goodies to work
> with. A proof of concept is in 0009. I think the big question I have
> for it is, how would we communicate what we want the server to do for
> the test? (We could perhaps switch on magic values of the client ID?)
> In the end I'd like to be testing close to 100% of the failure modes,
> and that's likely to mean a lot of back-and-forth if the server
> implementation isn't in the Perl process.



Can you give some more details about what this python gadget would buy 
us? I note that there are a couple of CPAN modules that provide OAuth2 
servers, not sure if they would be of any use.


cheers


andrew

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