Implementing a new auth mechanism

[Havoc Pennington]

Zeeshan Ali wrote:
> 
>   Of course but I think i already provided the information in english
> that you would get from looking at the patch and i only intended to
> get generic pointers that you provided so i didn't attach the
> backtrace but attatching it to this mail anyways.
>

Ah, OK. If you just want generic pointers then you have come to the 
right place ;-)

The immediate cause of the crash looks pretty obvious (null pointer 
dereference because user_database_lookup was passed both DBUS_UID_UNSET 
and a NULL username). The root cause isn't clear to me offhand, but 
probably you have to fill in the uid somewhere in the auth stuff.

>> I'm sure an auth-only test case will save you a boatload of time as you
>> work on this, since it makes the code you're working with fundamentally
>> much smaller and simpler.
> 
>   Which of the alternatives that you suggested, you are refering to
> here? The unit test or the test app?
> 

Either one, they are effectively the same thing. The test app might be 
easier to work with but a little trickier to set up the Makefile and 
headers for.

Havoc