[pgpool-committers: 10494] pgpool: Suppress unnecessary information upon authentication failure.

Tatsuo Ishii ishii at postgresql.org
Sat May 17 15:31:52 JST 2025


Suppress unnecessary information upon authentication failure.

Previously a message "password size does not match" was displayed when
client authentication failed.  This could help an attacker to guess
password. Replace it just "password does not match".

Backpatch-through: v4.2

Branch
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V4_2_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=pgpool2.git;a=commitdiff;h=ec7c3b180c0be061a63eafe6d59366a3c5215114

Modified Files
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src/auth/pool_auth.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)



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