Patch applied. Thanks. Backpatched to 8.1.X.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Frost wrote: > Greetings, > > * Stephen Frost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 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. > > Thanks, > > Stephen [ Attachment, skipping... ] > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us SRA OSS, Inc. http://www.sraoss.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
