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Fix up usage of krb_server_keyfile GUC parameter.

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secure_open_gssapi() installed the krb_server_keyfile setting as
KRB5_KTNAME unconditionally, so long as it's not empty.  However,
pg_GSS_recvauth() only installed it if KRB5_KTNAME wasn't set already,
leading to a troubling inconsistency: in theory, clients could see
different sets of server principal names depending on whether they
use GSSAPI encryption.  Always using krb_server_keyfile seems like
the right thing, so make both places do that.  Also fix up
secure_open_gssapi()'s lack of a check for setenv() failure ---
it's unlikely, surely, but security-critical actions are no place
to be sloppy.

Also improve the associated documentation.

This patch does nothing about secure_open_gssapi()'s use of setenv(),
and indeed causes pg_GSS_recvauth() to use it too.  That's nominally
against project portability rules, but since this code is only built
with --with-gssapi, I do not feel a need to do something about this
in the back branches.  A fix will be forthcoming for HEAD though.

Back-patch to v12 where GSSAPI encryption was introduced.  The
dubious behavior in pg_GSS_recvauth() goes back further, but it
didn't have anything to be inconsistent with, so let it be.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2187460.1609263156@sss.pgh.pa.us
This commit is contained in:
Tom Lane
2020-12-30 11:38:42 -05:00
parent e665769e6d
commit 860fe27ee1
5 changed files with 31 additions and 32 deletions
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src/backend/libpq/be-secure-gssapi.c
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@ -525,8 +525,16 @@ secure_open_gssapi(Port *port)
* Use the configured keytab, if there is one. Unfortunately, Heimdal
* doesn't support the cred store extensions, so use the env var.
*/
if (pg_krb_server_keyfile != NULL && strlen(pg_krb_server_keyfile) > 0)
setenv("KRB5_KTNAME", pg_krb_server_keyfile, 1);
if (pg_krb_server_keyfile != NULL && pg_krb_server_keyfile[0] != '\0')
{
if (setenv("KRB5_KTNAME", pg_krb_server_keyfile, 1) != 0)
{
/* The only likely failure cause is OOM, so use that errcode */
ereport(FATAL,
(errcode(ERRCODE_OUT_OF_MEMORY),
errmsg("could not set environment: %m")));
}
}
while (true)
{