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mod_auth_cyrus: Add empty 'profile' table to SASL handler objects
This is for compatibility with Prosody's built-in util.sasl objects.
A SASL profile table usually includes methods supported by the backend, which
can be used by SASL mechanism handlers to perform operations (such as testing
the password). It also optionally contains a 'cb' field with channel binding
method handlers.
The Cyrus backend doesn't support channel binding, and doesn't have the same
concept of auth backend methods (it handles all that internally, and Prosody
has no insight or control over it).
Thus, we create an empty profile which informs Prosody that the SASL handler
does not support any of the auth or channel binding methods. Some features
will not work, but they didn't work anyway. This just makes it explicit.
This fixes a traceback in mod_sasl2_fast, which expected SASL handlers to
always contain a 'profile' field.
| author | Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> |
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| date | Thu, 04 Sep 2025 10:14:46 +0100 |
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8 This has a few problems. For one, for every message to the groupchat, a |
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9 copy is sent to each joined client. This means that at the account |
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10 level, each message would pass by once for each client that is joined, |
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12 archive. |
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14 A potentially better approach would be that the user account itself is |
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15 the entity that joins the groupchat. Since the account is an entity that |
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17 connection most of the time, this may improve the experience and |
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18 simplify some problems. |
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20 This is one of the essential changes in the MIX architecture, which is |
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23 `mod_minimix` is an experiment meant to determine if things can be |
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33 - You can never leave. |
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49 # Compatibility |
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51 Briefly tested with Prosody trunk (as of this writing). |
