So far it was not possible to setup Sentinel with authentication
enabled. This commit introduces this feature: every Sentinel will try to
authenticate with other sentinels using the same password it is
configured to accept clients with.
So for instance if a Sentinel has a "requirepass" configuration
statemnet set to "foo", it will use the "foo" password to authenticate
with every other Sentinel it connects to. So basically to add the
"requirepass" to all the Sentinels configurations is enough in order to
make sure that:
1) Clients will require the password to access the Sentinels instances.
2) Each Sentinel will use the same password to connect and authenticate
with every other Sentinel in the group.
Related to #3279 and #3329.
So far it was not possible to setup Sentinel with authentication
enabled. This commit introduces this feature: every Sentinel will try to
authenticate with other sentinels using the same password it is
configured to accept clients with.
So for instance if a Sentinel has a "requirepass" configuration
statemnet set to "foo", it will use the "foo" password to authenticate
with every other Sentinel it connects to. So basically to add the
"requirepass" to all the Sentinels configurations is enough in order to
make sure that:
1) Clients will require the password to access the Sentinels instances.
2) Each Sentinel will use the same password to connect and authenticate
with every other Sentinel in the group.
Related to #3279 and #3329.
Fake clients are used in special situations and are not linked to the
normal clients list, freeing them will always result in Redis crashing
in one way or the other.
It's not common to send replies to fake clients, but we have one usage
in the modules API. When a client is blocked, we associate to the
blocked client object (that is safe to manipulate in a thread), a fake
client that accumulates replies. So because of this bug there was
the problem described in issue #5443.
The fix was verified to work with the provided example module. To write
a regression is very hard and unlikely to be triggered in the future.
Fake clients are used in special situations and are not linked to the
normal clients list, freeing them will always result in Redis crashing
in one way or the other.
It's not common to send replies to fake clients, but we have one usage
in the modules API. When a client is blocked, we associate to the
blocked client object (that is safe to manipulate in a thread), a fake
client that accumulates replies. So because of this bug there was
the problem described in issue #5443.
The fix was verified to work with the provided example module. To write
a regression is very hard and unlikely to be triggered in the future.
