Re: Negotiating the SCRAM channel binding type

On 05/08/2018 14:45, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 03:30:43PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> That test just tested that the scram_channel_binding libpq option works, but
>> I removed the option. I know you wanted to keep it as a feature flag, but as
>> discussed earlier, I don't think that'd be useful.
>
> Sorry for the noise, I missed that there is still the test "Basic SCRAM
> authentication with SSL" so that would be fine. I would have preferred
> keeping around the negative test so as we don't break SSL connections
> when the client enforced cbind_flag to 'n' as that would be useful when
> adding new SSL implementations as that would avoid manual tests which
> people will most likely forget, but well...

I was updating the gnutls patch for the changed channel binding setup,
and I noticed that the 002_scram.pl test now passes even though the
gnutls patch currently does not support channel binding. So AFAICT,
we're not testing the channel binding functionality there at all. Is
that as intended?

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