momjian@postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> Log Message:
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> * 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.
Bruce, people would appreciate it if you made some effort to ensure
that commit messages describe the main purposes of the patch, rather
than being just the verbatim text of the last message in the thread.
The above log message is not merely overly verbose, but completely
useless. One might guess that the change had something to do with
Kerberos, but what?
regards, tom lane