Subject: 24.4; Bug in auth-source.el's search of OS X Keychain
From: John Mastro <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:04:42 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

The library `auth-source.el' contains code to search OS X's Keychain
(the backends `macos-keychain-generic' and `macos-keychain-internet').

Both backends are implemented by parsing the results of OS X's
/usr/bin/security. This parsing is done by
`auth-source-macos-keychain-search-items'. However, there's currently a
problem with this code in both the master and emacs-24 branches.

Specifically, the function `auth-source-macos-keychain-result-append' is
called three times, but each time its result is ignored.

A precise recipe from `emacs -Q' is a little difficult, because it
depends on OS X and what you have in your keychain. However, the below
is an example of what will work with the fix but not with the current
code.

A simple patch (against the emacs-24 batch) is attached. I don't yet
have paperwork on file with FSF, but I believe this is short/trivial
enough to be accepted anyway.

    ;; Example. With appropriate user/host, will be nil before patch but
    ;; return expected output after patch.
    (progn (require 'auth-source)
           (auth-source-macos-keychain-search
            :backend (auth-source-backend-parse 'macos-keychain-internet)
            :user "MY-USER"
            :host "MY-HOST"))

Patch:

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/auth-source.el b/lisp/gnus/auth-source.el
index a50ad75..72ec5f4 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/auth-source.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/auth-source.el
@@ -1779,29 +1779,29 @@ entries for git.gnus.org:
         (while (not (eobp))
           (cond
            ((looking-at "^password: \"\\(.+\\)\"$")
-            (auth-source-macos-keychain-result-append
-             ret
-             keychain-generic
-             "secret"
-             (lexical-let ((v (match-string 1)))
-               (lambda () v))))
+            (setq ret (auth-source-macos-keychain-result-append
+                       ret
+                       keychain-generic
+                       "secret"
+                       (lexical-let ((v (match-string 1)))
+                         (lambda () v)))))
            ;; TODO: check if this is really the label
            ;; match 0x00000007 <blob>="AppleID"
            ((looking-at "^[ ]+0x00000007 <blob>=\"\\(.+\\)\"")
-            (auth-source-macos-keychain-result-append
-             ret
-             keychain-generic
-             "label"
-             (match-string 1)))
+            (setq ret (auth-source-macos-keychain-result-append
+                       ret
+                       keychain-generic
+                       "label"
+                       (match-string 1))))
            ;; match "crtr"<uint32>="aapl"
            ;; match "svce"<blob>="AppleID"
            ((looking-at "^[ ]+\"\\([a-z]+\\)\"[^=]+=\"\\(.+\\)\"")
-            (auth-source-macos-keychain-result-append
-             ret
-             keychain-generic
-             (match-string 1)
-             (match-string 2))))
-            (forward-line)))
+            (setq ret (auth-source-macos-keychain-result-append
+                       ret
+                       keychain-generic
+                       (match-string 1)
+                       (match-string 2)))))
+          (forward-line)))
       ;; return `ret' iff it has the :secret key
       (and (plist-get ret :secret) (list ret))))

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