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regarding pidgin: SASL authentication with irc.freenode broken
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: pidgin
Version: 2.11.0-0+deb8u1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
As reported in the upstream mailing list:
https://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2016-September/029627.html
SASL authentication is currently broken with the Pidgin client with any server
that advertises the EXTERNAL authentication method. This includes
irc.freenode.net since September.
Upstream already fixed it:
https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/610656636af6d1d6fdd6723d5ef311c903b6a804?at=default
Attached is the patch backported from that commit. I tested this on Debian
Jessie and I can authenticate again on freenode.
Given freenode is probably the largest IRC network out there, please consider,
if possible, a stable update for Jessie. Thank you!
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'stable'), (104, 'testing'), (103, 'unstable'), (102, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages pidgin depends on:
ii gconf2 3.2.6-3
ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u7
ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.22-0+deb8u1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.102-1
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7
ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-3+deb8u1
ii libgadu3 1:1.12.0-5
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+deb8u5
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1+b1
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.36-1.5
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.25-3+deb8u1
ii libgtkspell0 2.0.16-1.1
ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libpurple0 2.11.0-0+deb8u1
ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3
ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u3
ii libxss1 1:1.2.2-1
ii perl-base [perlapi-5.20.2] 5.20.2-3+deb8u6
ii pidgin-data 2.11.0-0+deb8u1
Versions of packages pidgin recommends:
ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.36-2
pn gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg <none>
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.36-2
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.31-3+nmu4+deb8u2
Versions of packages pidgin suggests:
ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.7.1-1+deb8u2
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>From 610656636af6d1d6fdd6723d5ef311c903b6a804 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kernc <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:24:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] IRC: Skip EXTERNAL SASL auth mechanism
Makes Freenode and other servers that prefer SASL EXTERNAL
fingerprint authentication work again.
Ref:
"Cannot connect to IRC (Freenode)"
https://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2016-September/029627.html
--- a/libpurple/protocols/irc/msgs.c
+++ b/libpurple/protocols/irc/msgs.c
@@ -1574,6 +1574,8 @@
int id = 0;
PurpleConnection *gc = purple_account_get_connection(irc->account);
const char *mech_list = NULL;
+ char *pos;
+ size_t index;
if (strncmp(args[2], "sasl ", 6))
return;
@@ -1637,6 +1639,15 @@
}
irc->sasl_mechs = g_string_new(mech_list);
+ /* Drop EXTERNAL mechanism since we don't support it */
+ if ((pos = strstr(irc->sasl_mechs->str, "EXTERNAL"))) {
+ index = pos - irc->sasl_mechs->str;
+ g_string_erase(irc->sasl_mechs, index, strlen("EXTERNAL"));
+ /* Remove space which separated this mech from the next */
+ if ((irc->sasl_mechs->str)[index] == ' ') {
+ g_string_erase(irc->sasl_mechs, index, 1);
+ }
+ }
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.12.0-1
Fixed upstream.
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