Re: Password identifiers, protocol aging and SCRAM protocol

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Julian Markwort <julian(dot)markwort(at)uni-muenster(dot)de>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Valery Popov <v(dot)popov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: Password identifiers, protocol aging and SCRAM protocol
Date: 2016-12-09 09:51:45
Message-ID: 3029e460-d47c-710e-507e-d8ba759d7cbb@iki.fi
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On 12/09/2016 05:58 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>
> One thing is: when do we look up at pg_authid? After receiving the
> first message from client or before beginning the exchange? As the
> first message from client has the user name, it would make sense to do
> the lookup after receiving it, but from PG prospective it would just
> make sense to use the data already present in the startup packet. The
> current patch does the latter. What do you think?

While hacking on this, I came up with the attached refactoring, against
current master. I think it makes the current code more readable, anyway,
and it provides a get_role_password() function that SCRAM can use, to
look up the stored password. (This is essentially the same refactoring
that was included in the SCRAM patch set, that introduced the
get_role_details() function.)

Barring objections, I'll go ahead and commit this first.

- Heikki

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0001-Refactor-the-code-for-verifying-user-s-password.patch text/x-diff 11.2 KB

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