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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 ============ |
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10 It happens occasionally that I would like to use the XMPP server as a |
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11 generic proxy for connecting to another service. It is especially |
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15 Details |
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18 Using mod\_tcpproxy an XMPP client (including those using BOSH) can |
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19 initiate a pipe to a given TCP/IP address and port. This implementation |
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20 uses the [In-Band Bytestreams](http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0047.html) |
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21 XEP, simply extended with 2 new attributes in a new namespace, host and |
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24 An example Javascript client can be found in the web/ directory of |
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25 mod\_tcpproxy in the repository. |
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27 Configuration |
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28 ============= |
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32 `Component "tcp.example.com" "tcpproxy"` |
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34 Protocol |
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54 In response to this stanza you will receive a result upon connection |
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55 success, or an error if the connection failed. You can then send to the |
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56 connection by sending message stanzas as described in the IBB XEP. |
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57 Incoming data will likewise be delivered as messages. |
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60 ============= |
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63 0.7 Works |
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67 Todo |
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70 - ACLs (restrict to certain JIDs, and/or certain target hosts/ports) |
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73 - Signal to start SSL/TLS on a connection |
