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From: avar@cpan.org (Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason)
To: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, martyn@catalyst.net.nz,
	martin@catalyst.net.nz, avar@cpan.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Authentication support for pserver
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:13:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86iqzyse9u.fsf@cpan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86r6ens6k5.fsf@cpan.org> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:48:10 +0000")

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avar@cpan.org (Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason) writes:

> Better late than never, here's a more complete and hopefully final patch
> to add authentication support to CVS. Thanks to Sam Vilain for
> contributing and kicking me into action.
>
> Now you specify a user:password authentication database in the [gitcvs]
> section. The passwords are crypt()-ed and can be produced by htpasswd,
> example config file:
>     
>     [gitcvs]
>         enabled = 1
>         authdb = /tmp/authdb.htpasswd
>     
> The patch can be pulled from git://git.nix.is/avar/git
>
> It's also produced below:

The patch needed a small fix, I didn't exit(1) after an error
condition[1]. This can also be got at git://git.nix.is/avar/git and is
produced in full below:


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>From 5900732b52c3a693bfb36c0bf56e3c5eb83ef65e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf-8?q?=C3=86var=20Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0=20Bjarmason?= <avar@cpan.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:08:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] git-cvsserver: authentication support for pserver
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Allow git-cvsserver to use authentication over pserver mode.  The
pserver user/password database is stored in the config file for each
repository.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org>
Worriedly-Acked-by: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt |   21 +++++++++--
 git-cvsserver.perl              |   74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index d3e9993..98183d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -69,9 +69,6 @@ plugin. Most functionality works fine with both of these clients.
 LIMITATIONS
 -----------
 
-Currently cvsserver works over SSH connections for read/write clients, and
-over pserver for anonymous CVS access.
-
 CVS clients cannot tag, branch or perform GIT merges.
 
 git-cvsserver maps GIT branches to CVS modules. This is very different
@@ -81,7 +78,7 @@ one or more directories.
 INSTALLATION
 ------------
 
-1. If you are going to offer anonymous CVS access via pserver, add a line in
+1. If you are going to offer CVS access via pserver, add a line in
    /etc/inetd.conf like
 +
 --
@@ -98,6 +95,22 @@ looks like
    cvspserver stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-cvsserver git-cvsserver pserver
 
 ------
+
+Only anonymous access is provided by pserve by default. To commit you
+will have to create pserver accounts, simply add a [gitcvs.users]
+section to the repositories you want to access, for example:
+
+------
+   
+   [gitcvs.users]
+        someuser = somepassword
+        otheruser = otherpassword
+   
+------
+Then provide your password via the pserver method, for example:
+------
+   cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword <at> server/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name>
+------
 No special setup is needed for SSH access, other than having GIT tools
 in the PATH. If you have clients that do not accept the CVS_SERVER
 environment variable, you can rename git-cvsserver to cvs.
diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
index afe3d0b..9bc2ff5 100755
--- a/git-cvsserver.perl
+++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
@@ -150,12 +150,35 @@ if ($state->{method} eq 'pserver') {
        exit 1;
     }
     $line = <STDIN>; chomp $line;
-    unless ($line eq 'anonymous') {
-       print "E Only anonymous user allowed via pserver\n";
-       print "I HATE YOU\n";
-       exit 1;
+    my $user = $line;
+    $line = <STDIN>; chomp $line;
+    my $password = $line;
+
+    unless ($user eq 'anonymous') {
+        # Trying to authenticate a user
+        if (not exists $cfg->{gitcvs}->{users}) {
+            print "E the repo config file needs a [gitcvs.users] section with user/password key-value pairs\n";
+            print "I HATE YOU\n";
+            exit 1;
+        } elsif (exists $cfg->{gitcvs}->{users} and not exists $cfg->{gitcvs}->{users}->{$user}) {
+            #print "E the repo config file has a [gitcvs.users] section but the user $user is not defined in it\n";
+            print "I HATE YOU\n";
+            exit 1;
+        } else {
+            my $descrambled_password = descramble($password);
+            my $cleartext_password = $cfg->{gitcvs}->{users}->{$user};
+            if ($descrambled_password ne $cleartext_password) {
+                #print "E The password supplied for user $user was incorrect\n";
+                print "I HATE YOU\n";
+                exit 1;
+            }
+            # else fall through to LOVE
+        }
     }
-    $line = <STDIN>; chomp $line;    # validate the password?
+
+    # For checking whether the user is anonymous on commit
+    $state->{user} = $user;
+
     $line = <STDIN>; chomp $line;
     unless ($line eq "END $request REQUEST") {
        die "E Do not understand $line -- expecting END $request REQUEST\n";
@@ -273,7 +296,7 @@ sub req_Root
     }
     foreach my $line ( @gitvars )
     {
-        next unless ( $line =~ /^(gitcvs)\.(?:(ext|pserver)\.)?([\w-]+)=(.*)$/ );
+        next unless ( $line =~ /^(gitcvs)\.(?:(ext|pserver|users)\.)?([\w-]+)=(.*)$/ );
         unless ($2) {
             $cfg->{$1}{$3} = $4;
         } else {
@@ -1176,9 +1199,9 @@ sub req_ci
 
     $log->info("req_ci : " . ( defined($data) ? $data : "[NULL]" ));
 
-    if ( $state->{method} eq 'pserver')
+    if ($state->{method} eq 'pserver' and $state->{user} eq 'anonymous')
     {
-        print "error 1 pserver access cannot commit\n";
+        print "error 1 anonymous user cannot commit via pserver\n";
         exit;
     }
 
@@ -2107,6 +2130,41 @@ sub kopts_from_path
     }
 }
 
+
+sub descramble
+{
+    # This table is from src/scramble.c in the CVS source
+    my @SHIFTS = (
+        0,  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
+        16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,
+        114,120, 53, 79, 96,109, 72,108, 70, 64, 76, 67,116, 74, 68, 87,
+        111, 52, 75,119, 49, 34, 82, 81, 95, 65,112, 86,118,110,122,105,
+        41, 57, 83, 43, 46,102, 40, 89, 38,103, 45, 50, 42,123, 91, 35,
+        125, 55, 54, 66,124,126, 59, 47, 92, 71,115, 78, 88,107,106, 56,
+        36,121,117,104,101,100, 69, 73, 99, 63, 94, 93, 39, 37, 61, 48,
+        58,113, 32, 90, 44, 98, 60, 51, 33, 97, 62, 77, 84, 80, 85,223,
+        225,216,187,166,229,189,222,188,141,249,148,200,184,136,248,190,
+        199,170,181,204,138,232,218,183,255,234,220,247,213,203,226,193,
+        174,172,228,252,217,201,131,230,197,211,145,238,161,179,160,212,
+        207,221,254,173,202,146,224,151,140,196,205,130,135,133,143,246,
+        192,159,244,239,185,168,215,144,139,165,180,157,147,186,214,176,
+        227,231,219,169,175,156,206,198,129,164,150,210,154,177,134,127,
+        182,128,158,208,162,132,167,209,149,241,153,251,237,236,171,195,
+        243,233,253,240,194,250,191,155,142,137,245,235,163,242,178,152
+    );
+    my ($str) = @_;
+
+    # This should never happen, the same password format (A) bas been
+    # used by CVS since the beginning of time
+    $str =~ s/^(.)//;
+    die "invalid password format $1" unless $1 eq 'A';
+
+    $str =~ s/(.)/chr $SHIFTS[ord $1]/ge;
+
+    return $str;
+}
+
+
 package GITCVS::log;
 
 ####
-- 
1.5.3.rc3.120.g68d422


>From f59c255ed14c5b80d5328f94f6934461cfe454da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 11:03:14 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] git-cvsserver: use a password file cvsserver pserver

If a git repository is shared via HTTP, the config file is typically
visible.  Use an external file instead.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org>
---
 Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt |   21 ++++++++++++++++-----
 git-cvsserver.perl              |   27 ++++++++++++++-------------
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index 98183d4..c642f12 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -97,16 +97,27 @@ looks like
 ------
 
 Only anonymous access is provided by pserve by default. To commit you
-will have to create pserver accounts, simply add a [gitcvs.users]
-section to the repositories you want to access, for example:
+will have to create pserver accounts, simply add a gitcvs.authdb
+setting in the config file of the repositories you want the cvsserver
+to allow writes to, for example:
 
 ------
    
-   [gitcvs.users]
-        someuser = somepassword
-        otheruser = otherpassword
+   [gitcvs]
+        authdb = /etc/cvsserver/passwd
    
 ------
+The format of these files is username followed by the crypted password,
+for example:
+
+------
+   myuser:$1Oyx5r9mdGZ2
+   myuser:$1$BA)@$vbnMJMDym7tA32AamXrm./
+------
+You can use the 'htpasswd' facility that comes with Apache to make these
+files, but Apache's MD5 crypt method differs from the one used by most C
+library's crypt() function, so don't use the -m option.
+
 Then provide your password via the pserver method, for example:
 ------
    cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword <at> server/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name>
diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
index 9bc2ff5..e54cbcd 100755
--- a/git-cvsserver.perl
+++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
@@ -156,24 +156,25 @@ if ($state->{method} eq 'pserver') {
 
     unless ($user eq 'anonymous') {
         # Trying to authenticate a user
-        if (not exists $cfg->{gitcvs}->{users}) {
-            print "E the repo config file needs a [gitcvs.users] section with user/password key-value pairs\n";
+        if (not exists $cfg->{gitcvs}->{authdb}) {
+            print "E the repo config file needs a [gitcvs.authdb] section with a filename\n";
             print "I HATE YOU\n";
             exit 1;
-        } elsif (exists $cfg->{gitcvs}->{users} and not exists $cfg->{gitcvs}->{users}->{$user}) {
-            #print "E the repo config file has a [gitcvs.users] section but the user $user is not defined in it\n";
+        }
+	my $auth_ok;
+	open PASSWD, "<$cfg->{gitcvs}->{authdb}" or die $!;
+	while(<PASSWD>) {
+	    if (m{^\Q$user\E:(.*)}) {
+		if (crypt($user, $1) eq $1) {
+		    $auth_ok = 1;
+		}
+	    };
+	}
+	unless ($auth_ok) {
             print "I HATE YOU\n";
             exit 1;
-        } else {
-            my $descrambled_password = descramble($password);
-            my $cleartext_password = $cfg->{gitcvs}->{users}->{$user};
-            if ($descrambled_password ne $cleartext_password) {
-                #print "E The password supplied for user $user was incorrect\n";
-                print "I HATE YOU\n";
-                exit 1;
-            }
-            # else fall through to LOVE
         }
+        # else fall through to LOVE
     }
 
     # For checking whether the user is anonymous on commit
-- 
1.5.3.rc3.120.g68d422


>From e8b69f313888900447f45ac3a8dceb38bd5c261e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf-8?q?=C3=86var=20Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0=20Bjarmason?= <avar@cpan.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 23:43:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Indent the last commit to fit with the rest of the code.

Use lexical filehandles instead of global globs

Close the filehandle after the password database has been read

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org>
---
 git-cvsserver.perl |   23 +++++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
index e54cbcd..f956ac9 100755
--- a/git-cvsserver.perl
+++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
@@ -161,16 +161,19 @@ if ($state->{method} eq 'pserver') {
             print "I HATE YOU\n";
             exit 1;
         }
-	my $auth_ok;
-	open PASSWD, "<$cfg->{gitcvs}->{authdb}" or die $!;
-	while(<PASSWD>) {
-	    if (m{^\Q$user\E:(.*)}) {
-		if (crypt($user, $1) eq $1) {
-		    $auth_ok = 1;
-		}
-	    };
-	}
-	unless ($auth_ok) {
+
+        my $auth_ok;
+        open my $passwd, "<", $cfg->{gitcvs}->{authdb} or die $!;
+        while (<$passwd>) {
+            if (m{^\Q$user\E:(.*)}) {
+                if (crypt($user, $1) eq $1) {
+                    $auth_ok = 1;
+                }
+            };
+        }
+        close $passwd;
+
+        unless ($auth_ok) {
             print "I HATE YOU\n";
             exit 1;
         }
-- 
1.5.3.rc3.120.g68d422


>From 90d3468556b46fc649a9408af42ff24ed2e50455 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf-8?q?=C3=86var=20Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0=20Bjarmason?= <avar@cpan.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:06:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Produce an error if the user tries to supply a password for anonymous

Clarify the error message produced when there's no [gitcvs.authdb]

Produce an E error if the authdb doesn't exist instead of spewing $!
to the user

do crypt($user, descramble($pass)) eq $hash; crypt($user, $hash) eq
$hash would accept any password

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org>
---
 git-cvsserver.perl |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
index f956ac9..aa0299e 100755
--- a/git-cvsserver.perl
+++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
@@ -154,19 +154,36 @@ if ($state->{method} eq 'pserver') {
     $line = <STDIN>; chomp $line;
     my $password = $line;
 
-    unless ($user eq 'anonymous') {
+    if ($user eq 'anonymous') {
+        # "A" will be 1 byte, use length instead in case the
+        # encryption method ever changes (yeah, right!)
+        if (length($password) > 1 ) {
+            print "E Don't supply a password for the `anonymous' user\n";
+            print "I HATE YOU\n";
+        }
+
+        # Fall through to LOVE
+    } else {
         # Trying to authenticate a user
         if (not exists $cfg->{gitcvs}->{authdb}) {
-            print "E the repo config file needs a [gitcvs.authdb] section with a filename\n";
+            print "E the repo config file needs a [gitcvs] section with an 'authdb' parameter set to the filename of the authentication database\n";
+            print "I HATE YOU\n";
+            exit 1;
+        }
+
+        my $authdb = $cfg->{gitcvs}->{authdb};
+
+        unless (-e $authdb) {
+            print "E The authentication database specified in [gitcvs.authdb] does not exist\n";
             print "I HATE YOU\n";
             exit 1;
         }
 
         my $auth_ok;
-        open my $passwd, "<", $cfg->{gitcvs}->{authdb} or die $!;
+        open my $passwd, "<", $authdb or die $!;
         while (<$passwd>) {
             if (m{^\Q$user\E:(.*)}) {
-                if (crypt($user, $1) eq $1) {
+                if (crypt($user, descramble($password)) eq $1) {
                     $auth_ok = 1;
                 }
             };
@@ -177,7 +194,8 @@ if ($state->{method} eq 'pserver') {
             print "I HATE YOU\n";
             exit 1;
         }
-        # else fall through to LOVE
+
+        # Fall through to LOVE
     }
 
     # For checking whether the user is anonymous on commit
-- 
1.5.3.rc3.120.g68d422


>From a55dfa2667da1473199ee70ca6cfd53094001119 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf-8?q?=C3=86var=20Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0=20Bjarmason?= <avar@cpan.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:09:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] document a perl snippet to produce passwords for those that don't have htpasswd


Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org>
---
 Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index c642f12..d410a11 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -118,6 +118,11 @@ You can use the 'htpasswd' facility that comes with Apache to make these
 files, but Apache's MD5 crypt method differs from the one used by most C
 library's crypt() function, so don't use the -m option.
 
+Alternatively you can produce the password with perl's crypt() operator:
+-----
+   perl -e 'my ($user, $pass) = @ARGV; printf "%s:%s\n", $user, crypt($user, $pass)' $USER password
+-----
+
 Then provide your password via the pserver method, for example:
 ------
    cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword <at> server/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name>
-- 
1.5.3.rc3.120.g68d422


>From 60f893bd9fe329bd5cf8ec513d10ec00e85feb2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf-8?q?=C3=86var=20Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0=20Bjarmason?= <avar@cpan.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:06:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] exit after producing the error about anonymous having a password


Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org>
---
 git-cvsserver.perl |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
index aa0299e..da48ebd 100755
--- a/git-cvsserver.perl
+++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ if ($state->{method} eq 'pserver') {
         if (length($password) > 1 ) {
             print "E Don't supply a password for the `anonymous' user\n";
             print "I HATE YOU\n";
+            exit 1;
         }
 
         # Fall through to LOVE
-- 
1.5.3.rc3.120.g68d422


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1. http://git.nix.is/?p=avar/git;a=commitdiff;h=60f893bd9fe329bd5cf8ec513d10ec00e85feb2c

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-07 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-14  4:08 [PATCH] Authentication support for pserver Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2007-12-14  5:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-14  5:44   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-12-14  6:55   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2007-12-14  8:13     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-14 21:08       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2007-12-18  9:41         ` Martin Langhoff
2007-12-18 20:39           ` Martin Langhoff
     [not found]           ` <46a038f90712181238p7529a02bmde21c89956a3f641@mail.gmail.com>
2007-12-18 21:10             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2007-12-18 21:37               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-07  0:48           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2008-03-07 16:13             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2008-06-19 17:38               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2008-06-19 19:00                 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-06-19 19:21                   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-19 20:14                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-15  2:45                   ` [PATCH 0/6] git-cvsserver: password " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15  2:45                   ` [PATCH 1/6] git-cvsserver: authentication " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15 15:06                     ` [PATCH 1/6 v2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15  2:46                   ` [PATCH 2/6] git-cvsserver: use a password file cvsserver pserver Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15 15:07                     ` [PATCH 2/6 v2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15  2:46                   ` [PATCH 3/6] git-cvsserver: indent & clean up authdb code Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15  2:46                   ` [PATCH 4/6] git-cvsserver: Improved error handling for pserver Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15  2:46                   ` [PATCH 5/6] git-cvsserver: document making a password without htpasswd Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15  2:46                   ` [PATCH 6/6] git-cvsserver: test for pserver authentication support Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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