Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Wolfgang Walther <walther(at)technowledgy(dot)de>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com>, Antonin Houska <ah(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Subject: Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER
Date: 2025-04-08 16:49:58
Message-ID: Z_VTtvQgL5dIOzjk@momjian.us
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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(at)momjian(dot)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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