Implementing a new auth mechanism

[Havoc Pennington]

Zeeshan Ali wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, it turned out to be not that simple and the client
> hangs after sending server the string: "AUTH CYRUS_SASL \r\n" . As an
> experiment, I replaced 'return TRUE' with 'return send_ok (auth);'  in
> the  server_data_func implementation of mine and now i get a segfault
> instead.
> 
> Can anyone please provide me with some useful pointers?
> 

We'd need more information (such as a backtrace from the segfault and a 
copy of the patch you're using, at minimum). I think you'll have a lot 
of small problems like this to debug though, so you may want to just 
dive in ;-)

My suggestion would be to avoid working with full dbus for your testing 
(i.e. don't try to test with dbus-send/dbus-daemon/etc.) - instead, 
create either a unit test in dbus-auth.c (and temporarily move it to be 
the first unit test run in 'make check' to save you time), or create a 
small test program that you can run that just exercises the 
authentication code. Within the dbus source tree, you can have a test 
program that uses the internal dbus-auth API, instead of having to get 
DBusConnection involved.

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.

Havoc