From e868dc56d893c749f75667aa97336cc6c028bddb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ad Schellevis <ad@opnsense.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:24:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (auth, legacy) proper error handling

---
 src/etc/inc/auth.inc | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/etc/inc/auth.inc b/src/etc/inc/auth.inc
index 288326ee9..72c27f7e2 100644
--- a/src/etc/inc/auth.inc
+++ b/src/etc/inc/auth.inc
@@ -727,5 +727,10 @@ function authenticate_user($username, $password, $authcfg = NULL) {
 	$authFactory = new OPNsense\Auth\AuthenticationFactory;
 	$authenticator = $authFactory->get($authName);
 
-	return $authenticator->authenticate($username, $password) ;
+	if ($authenticator != null) {
+		return $authenticator->authenticate($username, $password) ;
+	} else {
+		log_error('Unable to retrieve authenticator for '. $authName);
+		return false;
+	}
 }