I'm working on single-sign-on support for NTLM, where we don't actually
*know* the password, but just delegate the whole challenge/response
thing to a helper program.

That helper program is /usr/bin/ntlm_auth; the only current
implementation is the Samba one which works when you've logged into the
system using your Windows password and pam_winbind, but we're working on
a less baroque version that works {like,with} gnome-keyring, and there's
a simple hack at http://david.woodhou.se/ntlm_auth_v2.c for testing.

So I need a way to indicate that the authentication mechanism should be
tried once *without* a password, and then if that fails we should try
providing a password.

Thus the patch below. Anyone got a better suggestion for how to handle
it? A patch to actually use this facility in the NTLM authenticator will
follow, of course...

One alternative approach might be to to stop letting the authenticators
look at service->url->passwd, and instead have an 'authenticate' signal
on the CamelSasl object, much the same way as libsoup does it.

But then I think we'd still have to have the users know somehow if that
authenticate signal had been called on the first attempt, to know when
to set the CAMEL_SESSION_PASSWORD_REPROMPT flag, etc. I suspect it would
be a lot of extra work for something that doesn't really end up looking
any prettier by the time it's working.

Hence the 'try_empty_password' flag, which is relatively simple.

Comments?

commit b1787a5f85cdc1e46fb6ccf0c57134fc34f4e12e
Author: David Woodhouse <david.woodho...@intel.com>
Date:   Fri Apr 1 23:25:05 2011 +0100

    Add 'try_empty_password' flag to CamelServiceAuthType
    
    NTLM will be use this, to support single-sign-on using /usr/bin/ntlm_auth

diff --git a/camel/camel-sasl-anonymous.c b/camel/camel-sasl-anonymous.c
index dbbb500..850b1ea 100644
--- a/camel/camel-sasl-anonymous.c
+++ b/camel/camel-sasl-anonymous.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ CamelServiceAuthType camel_sasl_anonymous_authtype = {
        N_("This option will connect to the server using an anonymous login."),
 
        "ANONYMOUS",
+       FALSE,
        FALSE
 };
 
diff --git a/camel/camel-sasl-cram-md5.c b/camel/camel-sasl-cram-md5.c
index ae4bb16..54f9daa 100644
--- a/camel/camel-sasl-cram-md5.c
+++ b/camel/camel-sasl-cram-md5.c
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ CamelServiceAuthType camel_sasl_cram_md5_authtype = {
           "secure CRAM-MD5 password, if the server supports it."),
 
        "CRAM-MD5",
+       FALSE,
        TRUE
 };
 
diff --git a/camel/camel-sasl-digest-md5.c b/camel/camel-sasl-digest-md5.c
index ae12f7b..384f216 100644
--- a/camel/camel-sasl-digest-md5.c
+++ b/camel/camel-sasl-digest-md5.c
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ CamelServiceAuthType camel_sasl_digest_md5_authtype = {
           "secure DIGEST-MD5 password, if the server supports it."),
 
        "DIGEST-MD5",
+       FALSE,
        TRUE
 };
 
diff --git a/camel/camel-sasl-gssapi.c b/camel/camel-sasl-gssapi.c
index 61b3404..832c128 100644
--- a/camel/camel-sasl-gssapi.c
+++ b/camel/camel-sasl-gssapi.c
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ CamelServiceAuthType camel_sasl_gssapi_authtype = {
           "Kerberos 5 authentication."),
 
        "GSSAPI",
+       FALSE,
        FALSE
 };
 
diff --git a/camel/camel-sasl-login.c b/camel/camel-sasl-login.c
index de3aba4..465a8f7 100644
--- a/camel/camel-sasl-login.c
+++ b/camel/camel-sasl-login.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ CamelServiceAuthType camel_sasl_login_authtype = {
           "simple password."),
 
        "LOGIN",
+       FALSE,
        TRUE
 };
 
diff --git a/camel/camel-sasl-ntlm.c b/camel/camel-sasl-ntlm.c
index 6d2313a..a285214 100644
--- a/camel/camel-sasl-ntlm.c
+++ b/camel/camel-sasl-ntlm.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ CamelServiceAuthType camel_sasl_ntlm_authtype = {
           "NTLM / Secure Password Authentication."),
 
        "NTLM",
+       FALSE,
        TRUE
 };
 
diff --git a/camel/camel-sasl-plain.c b/camel/camel-sasl-plain.c
index e27a6b9..5b1845d 100644
--- a/camel/camel-sasl-plain.c
+++ b/camel/camel-sasl-plain.c
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ CamelServiceAuthType camel_sasl_plain_authtype = {
           "simple password."),
 
        "PLAIN",
+       FALSE,
        TRUE
 };
 
diff --git a/camel/camel-sasl-popb4smtp.c b/camel/camel-sasl-popb4smtp.c
index 043291b..00ef7ff 100644
--- a/camel/camel-sasl-popb4smtp.c
+++ b/camel/camel-sasl-popb4smtp.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ CamelServiceAuthType camel_sasl_popb4smtp_authtype = {
 
        "POPB4SMTP",
        FALSE,
+       FALSE,
 };
 
 /* last time the pop was accessed (through the auth method anyway), *time_t */
diff --git a/camel/camel-service.h b/camel/camel-service.h
index d1efa89..35cf1a9 100644
--- a/camel/camel-service.h
+++ b/camel/camel-service.h
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ typedef struct {
        const gchar *description;
        const gchar *authproto;
 
+       gboolean try_empty_password;
        gboolean need_password;   /* needs a password to authenticate */
 } CamelServiceAuthType;
 
diff --git a/camel/providers/imap/camel-imap-store.c 
b/camel/providers/imap/camel-imap-store.c
index d241ee5..83188db 100644
--- a/camel/providers/imap/camel-imap-store.c
+++ b/camel/providers/imap/camel-imap-store.c
@@ -1143,9 +1143,9 @@ imap_auth_loop (CamelService *service, GError **error)
                        return FALSE;
                }
 
-               if (!authtype->need_password) {
+               if (!authtype->need_password || authtype->try_empty_password) {
                        authenticated = try_auth (store, authtype->authproto, 
error);
-                       if (!authenticated)
+                       if (!authtype->try_empty_password && !authenticated)
                                return FALSE;
                }
        }
diff --git a/camel/providers/imapx/camel-imapx-server.c 
b/camel/providers/imapx/camel-imapx-server.c
index 179252d..78ea5a9 100644
--- a/camel/providers/imapx/camel-imapx-server.c
+++ b/camel/providers/imapx/camel-imapx-server.c
@@ -2968,9 +2968,14 @@ imapx_reconnect (CamelIMAPXServer *is, GError **error)
        gboolean authenticated = FALSE;
        CamelServiceAuthType *authtype = NULL;
        guint32 prompt_flags = CAMEL_SESSION_PASSWORD_SECRET;
+       gboolean need_password = TRUE;
 
        while (!authenticated) {
-               if (errbuf) {
+               if (authtype && authtype->try_empty_password && !need_password) 
{
+                       need_password = TRUE;
+                       g_free (errbuf);
+                       errbuf = NULL;
+               } else if (errbuf) {
                        /* We need to un-cache the password before prompting 
again */
                        prompt_flags |= CAMEL_SESSION_PASSWORD_REPROMPT;
                        g_free (service->url->passwd);
@@ -3004,9 +3009,12 @@ imapx_reconnect (CamelIMAPXServer *is, GError **error)
                                        service->url->authmech);
                                goto exception;
                        }
+
+                       if (authtype->try_empty_password || 
!authtype->need_password)
+                               need_password = FALSE;
                }
 
-               if (service->url->passwd == NULL && (!authtype || 
authtype->need_password)) {
+               if (need_password && service->url->passwd == NULL) {
                        gchar *base_prompt;
                        gchar *full_prompt;
 
diff --git a/camel/providers/smtp/camel-smtp-transport.c 
b/camel/providers/smtp/camel-smtp-transport.c
index 9f927ee..9d49ae9 100644
--- a/camel/providers/smtp/camel-smtp-transport.c
+++ b/camel/providers/smtp/camel-smtp-transport.c
@@ -465,12 +465,12 @@ smtp_connect (CamelService *service, GError **error)
                        return FALSE;
                }
 
-               if (!authtype->need_password) {
+               if (!authtype->need_password || authtype->try_empty_password) {
                        /* authentication mechanism doesn't need a password,
                           so if it fails there's nothing we can do */
                        authenticated = smtp_auth (
                                transport, authtype->authproto, error);
-                       if (!authenticated) {
+                       if (!authtype->try_empty_password && !authenticated) {
                                camel_service_disconnect (service, TRUE, NULL);
                                return FALSE;
                        }


-- 
dwmw2

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