[PATCH 2/2] Revert "remote-curl: fall back to basic auth if Negotiate fails"
From: Jeff King <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-18 06:27:56
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 1b0d9545bb85912a16b367229d414f55d140d3be.
That commit does fix the situation it intended to (avoiding Negotiate
even when the credentials were provided in the URL), but it creates a
more serious regression: we now never hit the conditional for "we had a
username and password, tried them, but the server still gave us a 401".
That has two bad effects:
1. we never call credential_reject(), and thus a bogus credential
stored by a helper will live on forever
2. we never return HTTP_NOAUTH, so the error message the user gets is
"The requested URL returned error: 401", instead of "Authentication
failed".
Doing this correctly seems non-trivial, as we don't know whether the
Negotiate auth was a problem. Since this is a regression in the upcoming
v2.23.0 release (for which we're in -rc0), let's revert for now and work
on a fix separately.
(Note that this isn't a pure revert; the previous commit added a test
showing the regression, so we can now flip it to expect_success).
Reported-by: Ben Humphreys <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted>
---
http.c | 15 +++++++--------
t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh | 2 +-
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index c83bc33a5f..8119247149 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c@@ -1650,18 +1650,17 @@ static int handle_curl_result(struct slot_results *results) } else if (missing_target(results)) return HTTP_MISSING_TARGET; else if (results->http_code == 401) { -#ifdef LIBCURL_CAN_HANDLE_AUTH_ANY - http_auth_methods &= ~CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE; - if (results->auth_avail) { - http_auth_methods &= results->auth_avail; - http_auth_methods_restricted = 1; - return HTTP_REAUTH; - } -#endif if (http_auth.username && http_auth.password) { credential_reject(&http_auth); return HTTP_NOAUTH; } else { +#ifdef LIBCURL_CAN_HANDLE_AUTH_ANY + http_auth_methods &= ~CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE; + if (results->auth_avail) { + http_auth_methods &= results->auth_avail; + http_auth_methods_restricted = 1; + } +#endif return HTTP_REAUTH; } } else {
diff --git a/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh b/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
index 1de87e4ffe..4f87d90c5b 100755
--- a/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
+++ b/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ test_expect_success 'http auth remembers successful credentials' ' expect_askpass none ' -test_expect_failure 'http auth forgets bogus credentials' ' +test_expect_success 'http auth forgets bogus credentials' ' # seed credential store with bogus values. In real life, # this would probably come from a password which worked # for a previous request.
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