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Type:
Improvement
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Priority:
Major - P3
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Affects Version/s: None
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Component/s: Kerberos
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- Currently the native Kerberos authenticator returns false when various C function calls fail. The proper way of dealing with this is to raise a Ruby extension. Code upstream of the native authenticator is not expecting false returns and ends up sending bogus requests to the server, for example, as a result.
- The exception should be of a class defined by mongo_kerberos library, e.g. Mongo::Gssapi::Error.
- When sasl errors happen, mongo_kerberos should provide the error code and message to assist in troubleshooting.
- sasl initialization should be done globally, and one time per process. If it fails an exception should be raised preventing mongo_kerberos from being loaded, with descriptive details.