Re: Add a test to ldapbindpasswd

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add a test to ldapbindpasswd
Date: 2023-01-04 22:33:50
Message-ID: 4e46af89-6eab-b9cb-326f-c180fcabc7e5@dunslane.net
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On 2023-01-04 We 16:26, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 2023-01-02 Mo 09:45, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> On 2023-01-01 Su 18:31, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> On 2023-01-01 Su 14:02, Thomas Munro wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 3:04 AM Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>>>>> On 2022-12-19 Mo 11:16, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>>>> There is currently no test for the use of ldapbindpasswd in the
>>>>>> pg_hba.conf file. This patch, mostly the work of John Naylor, remedies that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> This currently has failures on the cfbot for meson builds on FBSD13 and
>>>>> Debian Bullseye, but it's not at all clear why. In both cases it fails
>>>>> where the ldap server is started.
>>>> I think it's failing when using meson. I guess it fails to fail on
>>>> macOS only because you need to add a new path for Homebrew/ARM like
>>>> commit 14d63dd2, so it's skipping (it'd be nice if we didn't need
>>>> another copy of all that logic). Trying locally... it looks like
>>>> slapd is failing silently, and with some tracing I can see it's
>>>> sending an error message to my syslog daemon, which logged:
>>>>
>>>> 2023-01-02T07:50:20.853019+13:00 x1 slapd[153599]: main: TLS init def
>>>> ctx failed: -1
>>>>
>>>> Ah, it looks like this test is relying on "slapd-certs", which doesn't exist:
>>>>
>>>> tmunro(at)x1:~/projects/postgresql/build$ ls testrun/ldap/001_auth/data/
>>>> ldap.conf ldappassword openldap-data portlock slapd-certs slapd.conf
>>>> tmunro(at)x1:~/projects/postgresql/build$ ls testrun/ldap/002_bindpasswd/data/
>>>> portlock slapd.conf
>>>>
>>>> I didn't look closely, but apparently there is something wrong in the
>>>> part that copies certs from the ssl test? Not sure why it works for
>>>> autoconf...
>>> Let's see how we fare with this patch.
>>>
>>>
>> Not so well :-(. This version tries to make the tests totally
>> independent, as they should be. That's an attempt to get the cfbot to go
>> green, but I am intending to refactor this code substantially so the
>> common bits are in a module each test file will load.
>>
>>
> This version factors out the creation of the LDAP server into a separate
> perl Module. That makes both the existing test script and the new test
> script a lot shorter, and will be useful for the nearby patch for a hook
> for the ldapbindpassword.
>
>

Looks like I fat fingered this. Here's a version that works.

cheers

andrew

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Andrew Dunstan
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