From ef383c0d3295f65e555441c416f59d1f0a8588f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:52:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] The auth_client function must not return without outputting
 something on the socket, so a NULL or empty username now defaults to "guest".

---
 authenticate.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/authenticate.c b/authenticate.c
index b147112a..9254fb0b 100644
--- a/authenticate.c
+++ b/authenticate.c
@@ -269,7 +269,8 @@ void auth_client(int fd, char *user, char *challenge)
 	char pass2[30];
 	extern char *password_file;
 
-	if (!user || !*user) return;
+	if (!user || !*user)
+		user = "guest";
 
 	if (!(pass=getpassf(password_file)) && !(pass=getenv("RSYNC_PASSWORD"))) {
 		/* XXX: cyeoh says that getpass is deprecated, because
-- 
2.34.1