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Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> * Stephen Frost (sfrost@snowman.net) 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
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