[Bug] User with empty password in client.yml does not work

[cyqsimon]

Description

Using ntfy CLI, when trying to subscribe to a topic as a user with an empty password, it seems impossible to do so from the config file client.yml. Things I tried all result in 403 forbidden authentication failures.

Steps to reproduce

1. Set up a topic empty-password-test on the server with policy deny.

ntfy access everyone empty-password-test deny

2. Add a user alice with empty password and read access to empty-password-test.

ntfy user add alice # provide empty password
ntfy access alice empty-password-test ro

3. Run curl -u "alice:" -s http://my.domain.tld/empty-password-test/json, and observe that stream is opened successfully.

• This verifies that the server has been set up correctly.

4. Set this up in client.yml.

subscribe:
    - topic: "http://my.domain.tld/empty-password-test"
      command: 'notify-send "$m"'
      user: "alice"
      password: ""

5. Run ntfy sub -C, and observe that authentication fails.
6. Run ntfy sub -u "alice:" -C, and observe that with the username&password override, authentication no longer fails.

Miscellaneous

• I tried password: ~, password: null, password: false, and omitting the password field altogether. None worked, although password: false produced 401 unauthorized instead of 403 forbidden.
• Versions:
  • Linux x86_64 5.18.14, ntfy 1.27.2@69d6cdd, go 1.18.4