Greetings,

I was just changing a simple app to move away from ::Authen::AllowedUsers to something that authenticates against one of our local systems, when i noticed I could connect using *any* username, no matter how i configured ::Authen::AllowedUsers.

A bit of debugging shows that the callbacks in there never get called. This looks to be due to me also using ::Authen::StaticPassword (same as the test
framework), which has a callback that does this:

  sub get_password {
      my ($self, $cb, %args) = @_;
      $cb->set($self->{password});
  }

Since the GetPassword callback is run before the CheckCleartext one, this ->set() is called before AllowedUsers (or any other user/password check for
that matter), which calls the following code in IQ.pm:

    if ($can_get_password) {
        $vhost->run_hook_chain(phase => "GetPassword",
            args  => [ username => $username, conn => $conn ],
            methods => {
                set => sub {
                    my (undef, $good_password) = @_;
                        if ($password && $password eq $good_password) {
                            $accept->();
                        } elsif ($digest) {
my $good_dig = lc(Digest::SHA1::sha1_hex ($conn->{stream_id} . $good_password));
                            if ($good_dig eq $digest) {
                                $accept->();
                            } else {
                                $reject->();
                            }
                        } else {
                            $reject->();
                        }
                    },
                },
            fallback => $reject

This means that any plugin that returns a password in the ->set() call will
stop any further username/password checks from being done.

Should this code be abstracted out of IQ.pm? Should it go in Authen.pm
instead, so it can be overridden properly? Is it completely wrong and should
be thrown out?

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Jos Boumans http://www.linkedin.com/in/josboumans

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