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From: Drouvot, Bertrand <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add peer authentication TAP test
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 19:51:29 +0200
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Hi,

On 9/30/22 2:00 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 04:24:44PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Hmm, indeed.  It would be more reliable to rely on the contents
>> returned by getpeereid()/getpwuid() after one successful peer
>> connection, then use it in the map.  I was wondering whether using
>> stuff like getpwuid() in the perl script itself would be better, but
>> it sounds less of a headache in terms of portability to just rely on
>> authn_id via SYSTEM_USER to generate the contents of the correct map.
> 
> By the way, on an extra read I have found a few things that can be
> simplified
> - I think that test_role() should be reworked so as the log patterns
> expected are passed down to connect_ok() and connect_fails() rather
> than involving find_in_log().  You still need find_in_log() to skip
> properly the case where peer is not supported by the platform, of
> course.
> - get_log_size() is not necessary.  You should be able to get the same
> information with "-s $self->logfile".
> - Nit: a newline should be added at the end of 003_peer.pl.
> --

Agree that it could be simplified, thanks for the hints!

Attached a simplified version.

Regards,

-- 
Bertrand Drouvot
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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v2-0001-peer-authentication-tap-test.patch (text/plain, 3.3K) download diff --git a/src/test/authentication/t/003_peer.pl b/src/test/authentication/t/003_peer.pl new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..57bf2343fc --- /dev/null +++ b/src/test/authentication/t/003_peer.pl @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ + +# Copyright (c) 2022, PostgreSQL Global Development Group + +# Tests for peer authentication and user name map. +# The test is skipped if the platform does not support peer authentication. + +use strict; +use warnings; +use PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster; +use PostgreSQL::Test::Utils; +use Test::More; + +# Delete pg_hba.conf from the given node, add a new entry to it +# and then execute a reload to refresh it. +sub reset_pg_hba +{ + my $node = shift; + my $hba_method = shift; + + unlink($node->data_dir . '/pg_hba.conf'); + # just for testing purposes, use a continuation line. + $node->append_conf('pg_hba.conf', "local all all\\\n $hba_method"); + $node->reload; + return; +} + +# Test access for a single role, useful to wrap all tests into one. +sub test_role +{ + local $Test::Builder::Level = $Test::Builder::Level + 1; + + my ($node, $role, $method, $expected_res, %params) = @_; + my $status_string = 'failed'; + $status_string = 'success' if ($expected_res eq 0); + + my $connstr = "user=$role"; + my $testname = + "authentication $status_string for method $method, role $role"; + + if ($expected_res eq 0) + { + $node->connect_ok($connstr, $testname, %params); + } + else + { + # No checks of the error message, only the status code. + $node->connect_fails($connstr, $testname, %params); + } +} + +# find $pat in logfile of $node. +sub find_in_log +{ + my ($node, $pat) = @_; + + my $log = PostgreSQL::Test::Utils::slurp_file($node->logfile); + return 0 if (length($log) <= 0); + + return $log =~ m/$pat/; +} + +# Initialize primary node. +my $node = PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster->new('primary'); +$node->init; +$node->append_conf('postgresql.conf', "log_connections = on\n"); +$node->start; + +# Set pg_hba.conf with the peer authentication. +reset_pg_hba($node, 'peer'); + +# Check that peer authentication is supported on this platform. +$node->psql('postgres'); + +# If not supported, then skip the rest of the test. +if (find_in_log($node, qr/peer authentication is not supported on this platform/)) +{ + plan skip_all => 'peer authentication is not supported on this platform'; +} + +# Let's create a new user for the user name map test. +$node->safe_psql('postgres', + qq{CREATE USER testmapuser}); + +# Get the system_user to define the user name map test. +my $system_user = + $node->safe_psql('postgres', q(select (string_to_array(SYSTEM_USER, ':'))[2])); + +# This connection should succeed. +test_role($node, $system_user, 'peer', 0, + log_like => + [qr/connection authenticated: identity="$system_user" method=peer/]); + +# This connection should failed. +test_role($node, qq{testmapuser}, 'peer', 2, + log_like => [qr/Peer authentication failed for user "testmapuser"/]); + +# Define a user name map. +$node->append_conf('pg_ident.conf', qq{mypeermap $system_user testmapuser}); + +# Set pg_hba.conf with the peer authentication and the user name map. +reset_pg_hba($node, 'peer map=mypeermap'); + +# This connection should now succeed. +test_role($node, qq{testmapuser}, 'peer', 0, + log_like => + [qr/connection authenticated: identity="$system_user" method=peer/]); + +done_testing();

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