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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-58769

PDO support in auth plugin needs to fail better

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    • Icon: Bug Bug
    • Resolution: Won't Do
    • Icon: Minor Minor
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    • 3.3
    • Authentication
    • MOODLE_33_STABLE

      When the PDO connection string results in failing connection, Moodle doesn't detect it and results in an incomphrensible error on attemtping to login:

      Exception - Call to a member function prepare() on boolean
      		 
       
      		 
      More information about this error
      		 
       
      		 
      ×Debug info: 
      Error code: generalexceptionmessage
      		 
      ×Stack trace:
      		 
      line 468 of /lib/adodb/drivers/adodb-pdo.inc.php: Error thrown
      		 
      line 1252 of /lib/adodb/adodb.inc.php: call to ADODB_pdo->_query()
      		 
      line 1230 of /lib/adodb/adodb.inc.php: call to ADOConnection->_Execute()
      		 
      line 115 of /auth/db/auth.php: call to ADOConnection->Execute()
      		 
      line 4312 of /lib/moodlelib.php: call to auth_plugin_db->user_login()
      		 
      line 154 of /login/index.php: call to authenticate_user_login()

      Steps to reproduce:

      1. Add external database auth plugin
      2. Set the type to pdo and set the connection string to something which will cause it to fail, eg.:
        1. Set the host to 'pgsql:host=localhost;port=5432;dbname=enroltest;user= enroltest;password=enroltest'
        2. Don't set the username and password in the auth plugin settings
      3. Try to login with a junk username

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            poltawski Dan Poltawski
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