Re: Let people set host(no)ssl settings from initdb - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Let people set host(no)ssl settings from initdb
Date
Msg-id 20200408162810.GQ13804@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Let people set host(no)ssl settings from initdb  (Cary Huang <cary.huang@highgo.ca>)
Responses Re: Let people set host(no)ssl settings from initdb  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 10:12:16PM +0000, Cary Huang wrote:
> The following review has been posted through the commitfest application:
> make installcheck-world:  tested, passed
> Implements feature:       tested, passed
> Spec compliant:           tested, passed
> Documentation:            tested, passed
> 
> Hi 
> I applied the patch "v3-0001-Enable-setting-pg_hba.conf-permissions-from-initd.patch" and did some verification with
it.The intended feature works overall and I think it is quite useful to support default auth methods for ssl and gss
hosttypes. I have also found some minor things in the patch and would like to share as below:
 
> 
> > +"# CAUTION: Configuring the system for \"trust\" authentication\n" \
> > +"# allows any user who can reach the databse on the route specified\n" \
> > +"# to connect as any PostgreSQL user, including the database\n" \
> > +"# superuser.  If you do not trust all the users who could\n" \
> > +"# reach the database on the route specified, use a more restrictive\n" \
> > +"# authentication method.\n"
> 
> Found a typo: should be 'database' instead of 'databse'

Fixed.

> >  * a sort of poor man's grep -v
> >  */
> > -#ifndef HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS
> >  static char **
> >  filter_lines_with_token(char **lines, const char *token)
> >  {
> > @@ -461,7 +466,6 @@ filter_lines_with_token(char **lines, const char *token)
> >  
> >      return result;
> > }
> > -#endif
> 
> I see that you have removed "#ifndef HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS" around the
> filter_lines_with_token() function definition so it would be always
> available, which is used to remove the @tokens@ in case user does
> not specify a default auth method for the new hostssl, hostgss
> options. I think you should also remove the "#ifndef
> HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS" around its declaration as well so both function
> definition and declaration would make sense.

Fixed.

Thanks very much for the review!

Best,
David.
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