pgsql: > I've now tested this patch at home w/ 8.2HEAD and it seems to

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> I've now tested this patch at home w/ 8.2HEAD and it seems to fix the
> bug. I plan on testing it under 8.1.2 at work tommorow with
> mod_auth_krb5, etc, and expect it'll work there. Assuming all goes
> well and unless someone objects I'll forward the patch to -patches.
> It'd be great to have this fixed as it'll allow us to use Kerberos to
> authenticate to phppgadmin and other web-based tools which use
> Postgres.

While playing with this patch under 8.1.2 at home I discovered a
mistake in how I manually applied one of the hunks to fe-auth.c.
Basically, the base code had changed and so the patch needed to be
modified slightly. This is because the code no longer either has a
freeable pointer under 'name' or has 'name' as NULL.

The attached patch correctly frees the string from pg_krb5_authname
(where it had been strdup'd) if and only if pg_krb5_authname returned
a string (as opposed to falling through and having name be set using
name = pw->name;). Also added a comment to this effect.
Please review.

Stephen Frost (sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net) wrote:

Modified Files:
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pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq:
fe-auth.c (r1.110 -> r1.111)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c.diff?r1=1.110&r2=1.111)