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-rw-r--r--src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c
index ebc85ba0f3..27ed3eee65 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c,v 1.2 1996/07/23 03:35:11 scrappy Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c,v 1.3 1996/07/27 02:27:55 scrappy Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ fe_getauthsvc(char* PQerrormsg)
}
/*
- * fe_getauthname -- returns a pointer to static space containing whatever
+ * fe_getauthname -- returns a pointer to dynamic space containing whatever
* name the user has authenticated to the system
* if there is an error, return the error message in PQerrormsg
*/
@@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ char*
fe_getauthname(char* PQerrormsg)
{
char *name = (char *) NULL;
+ char *authn = (char *) NULL;
MsgType authsvc;
authsvc = fe_getauthsvc(PQerrormsg);
@@ -525,11 +526,7 @@ fe_getauthname(char* PQerrormsg)
case STARTUP_MSG:
{
struct passwd *pw = getpwuid(geteuid());
- if (pw &&
- pw->pw_name &&
- (name = (char *) malloc(strlen(pw->pw_name) + 1))) {
- (void) strcpy(name, pw->pw_name);
- }
+ if (pw) name = pw->pw_name;
}
break;
default:
@@ -538,7 +535,10 @@ fe_getauthname(char* PQerrormsg)
authsvc);
break;
}
- return(name);
+
+ if(name && (authn = (char *) malloc(strlen(name) + 1)))
+ (void) strcpy(authn, name);
+ return(authn);
}