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GSSAPI: Improve documentation and tests

The GSSAPI encryption patch neglected to update the protocol
documentation to describe how to set up a GSSAPI encrypted connection
from a client to the server, so fix that by adding the appropriate
documentation to protocol.sgml.

The tests added for encryption support were overly long and couldn't be
run in parallel due to race conditions; this was largely because each
test was setting up its own KDC to perform the tests.  Instead, merge
the authentication tests and the encryption tests into the original
test, where we only create one KDC to run the tests with.  Also, have
the tests check what the server's opinion is of the connection and if it
was GSS authenticated or encrypted using the pg_stat_gssapi view.

In passing, fix the libpq label for GSSENC-Mode to be consistent with
the "PGGSSENCMODE" environment variable.

Missing protocol documentation pointed out by Michael Paquier.
Issues with the tests pointed out by Tom Lane and Peter Eisentraut.

Refactored tests and added documentation by me.

Reviewed by Robbie Harwood (protocol documentation) and Michael Paquier
(rework of the tests).
This commit is contained in:
Stephen Frost
2019-04-19 21:22:22 -04:00
parent b8b94ea129
commit eb882a1b71
4 changed files with 216 additions and 211 deletions

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@@ -1479,6 +1479,75 @@ SELCT 1/0;
of authentication checking.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title><acronym>GSSAPI</acronym> Session Encryption</title>
<para>
If <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> was built with
<acronym>GSSAPI</acronym> support, frontend/backend communications
can be encrypted using <acronym>GSSAPI</acronym>. This provides
communication security in environments where attackers might be
able to capture the session traffic. For more information on
encrypting <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> sessions with
<acronym>GSSAPI</acronym>, see <xref linkend="gssapi-enc"/>.
</para>
<para>
To initiate a <acronym>GSSAPI</acronym>-encrypted connection, the
frontend initially sends a GSSENCRequest message rather than a
StartupMessage. The server then responds with a single byte
containing <literal>G</literal> or <literal>N</literal>, indicating that it
is willing or unwilling to perform <acronym>GSSAPI</acronym> encryption,
respectively. The frontend might close the connection at this point
if it is dissatisfied with the response. To continue after
<literal>G</literal>, using the GSSAPI C bindings as discussed in RFC2744
or equivilant, perform a <acronym>GSSAPI</acronym> initialization by
calling <function>gss_init_sec_context()</function> in a loop and sending
the result to the server, starting with an empty input and then with each
result from the server, until it returns no output. When sending the
results of <function>gss_init_sec_context()</function> to the server,
prepend the length of the message as a four byte integer in network byte
order. If this is successful, then use <function>gss_wrap()</function> to
encrypt the usual StartupMessage and all subsequent data, prepending the
length of the result from <function>gss_wrap()</function> as a four byte
integer in network byte order to the actual encrypted payload. Note that
the server will only accept encrypted packets from the client which are less
than 16KB; <function>gss_wrap_size_limit()</function> should be used by the
client to determine the size of the unencrypted message which will fit
within this limit and larger messages should be broken up into multiple
<function>gss_wrap()</function> calls. Typical segments are 8KB of
unencrypted data, resulting in encrypted packets of slightly larger than 8KB
but well within the 16KB maximum. The server can be expected to not send
encrypted packets of larger than 16KB to the client. To continue after
<literal>N</literal>, send the usual StartupMessage and proceed without
encryption.
</para>
<para>
The frontend should also be prepared to handle an ErrorMessage
response to GSSENCRequest from the server. This would only occur if
the server predates the addition of <acronym>GSSAPI</acronym> encryption
support to <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>. In this case the
connection must be closed, but the frontend might choose to open a fresh
connection and proceed without requesting <acronym>GSSAPI</acronym>
encryption. Given the length limits specified above, the ErrorMessage can
not be confused with a proper response from the server with an appropriate
length.
</para>
<para>
An initial GSSENCRequest can also be used in a connection that is being
opened to send a CancelRequest message.
</para>
<para>
While the protocol itself does not provide a way for the server to
force <acronym>GSSAPI</acronym> encryption, the administrator can
configure the server to reject unencrypted sessions as a byproduct
of authentication checking.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="sasl-authentication">
@@ -5714,6 +5783,43 @@ SSLRequest (F)
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
GSSENCRequest (F)
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>
Int32(8)
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Length of message contents in bytes, including self.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
Int32(80877104)
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
The <acronym>GSSAPI</acronym> Encryption request code. The value is chosen to contain
<literal>1234</literal> in the most significant 16 bits, and <literal>5680</literal> in the
least significant 16 bits. (To avoid confusion, this code
must not be the same as any protocol version number.)
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>