From ccd2a4b8755857d1bafd43b5bbb72af0915a4f80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Drew DeVault <drew@ddevault.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 19:00:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] auth: handle edge case when fetching users from meta

---
 auth/middleware.go | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/auth/middleware.go b/auth/middleware.go
index 3fc6051962e8d661d85e860c340dcf9ab65ff507..7eb839e98c85c06270567ab9669862e9bead63d7 100644
--- a/auth/middleware.go
+++ b/auth/middleware.go
@@ -434,6 +434,10 @@ func LookupUser(ctx context.Context, username string, user *AuthContext) error {
 			if err = rows.Err(); err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
+			if config.ServiceName(ctx) == "meta.sr.ht" {
+				log.Printf("LookupUser: Unknown user %s", username)
+				return fmt.Errorf("Unknown user %s", username)
+			}
 			return FetchMetaProfile(ctx, username, user)
 		}
 		cols := []interface{}{