[Pan-users] Bad authentication segfaults pan

[Duncan]

So I finally did that $50 1TB block thing from Astraweb I've been talking 
about on and off.  The problem is that they had MUCH stricter password 
settings (limited to 12 alphanumeric chars, despite a FAQ entry saying be 
sure it's not easily guessed, thus stimulating an original password of 
something like 20 chars including symbols) after I signed up than the 
ones they actually let me sign up with, so I was getting invalid password 
errors when I tried to actually connect.

But it took me quite some time to figure out what was going on, as I was 
trying to download the group list, and pan was segfaulting on the invalid 
password result, not giving it a chance to be logged or anything!  Since 
I don't update the group list very often, and probably others don't 
either, I initially thought a segfault had either slipped into that.

But I remembered the ngrep mentioned here a few days ago and took it for 
a spin, and the problem was pretty obvious when I saw the 502 invalid 
password error that pan couldn't give me as it was busy segfaulting!

So, please fix the authentication so it doesn't segfault when it gets a 
502 auth invalid error code.  Thanks.

(Meanwhile, fixing that static mutex thing would be nice, too.  I'm 
dumbly patching out the static for now, but I guess that's the wrong 
patch from what I've read right here, and I was actually wondering if 
something with that might have been triggering the crash, before I found 
out what it was.)

Now that I have a reasonable binary paid account... with authentication 
even, thus the problem above... I can actually exercise more of git-pan's 
new code. =:^)

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