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[PATCH v2] send-email: provide whitelist of SMTP AUTH mechanisms

From
JVJan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
Date
Aug 2, 2015, 16:42 UTC
Message-ID
<1438533769-17460-1-git-send-email-viktorin@rehivetech.com>

When sending an e-mail, the client and server must agree on an authentication mechanism. Some servers (due to misconfiguration or a bug) deny valid credentials for certain mechanisms. In this patch, a new option --smtp-auth and configuration entry smtpauth are introduced. If smtp_auth is defined, it works as a whitelist of allowed mechanisms for authentication selected from the ones supported by the installed SASL perl library.

Signed-off-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
---
Changes v1 -> v2:
  - check user input by regex
  - added documentation
  - still missing a test
 Documentation/git-send-email.txt |  8 ++++++++
 git-send-email.perl              | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 7ae467b..c237c80 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -171,6 +171,14 @@ Sending
 	to determine your FQDN automatically.  Default is the value of
 	'sendemail.smtpDomain'.
 
+--smtp-auth=<mechs>::
+	Specify allowed SMTP-AUTH mechanisms. This setting forces using only
+	the listed mechanisms. Separate allowed mechanisms by a whitespace.
+	Example: PLAIN LOGIN GSSAPI. If at least one of the specified mechanisms
+	matchs those advertised by the SMTP server and it is supported by the SASL
+	library we use, it is used for authentication. If neither of 'sendemail.smtpAuth'
+	or '--smtp-auth' is specified, all mechanisms supported on client can be used.
+
 --smtp-pass[=<password>]::
 	Password for SMTP-AUTH. The argument is optional: If no
 	argument is specified, then the empty string is used as
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index ae9f869..ebc1e90 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ git send-email [options] <file | directory | rev-list options >
                                      Pass an empty string to disable certificate
                                      verification.
     --smtp-domain           <str>  * The domain name sent to HELO/EHLO handshake
+    --smtp-auth             <str>  * Space separated list of allowed AUTH methods.
+                                     This setting forces to use one of the listed methods.
+                                     Supported: PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5.
     --smtp-debug            <0|1>  * Disable, enable Net::SMTP debug.
 
   Automating:
@@ -208,7 +211,7 @@ my ($cover_cc, $cover_to);
 my ($to_cmd, $cc_cmd);
 my ($smtp_server, $smtp_server_port, @smtp_server_options);
 my ($smtp_authuser, $smtp_encryption, $smtp_ssl_cert_path);
-my ($identity, $aliasfiletype, @alias_files, $smtp_domain);
+my ($identity, $aliasfiletype, @alias_files, $smtp_domain, $smtp_auth);
 my ($validate, $confirm);
 my (@suppress_cc);
 my ($auto_8bit_encoding);
@@ -239,6 +242,7 @@ my %config_settings = (
     "smtppass" => \$smtp_authpass,
     "smtpsslcertpath" => \$smtp_ssl_cert_path,
     "smtpdomain" => \$smtp_domain,
+    "smtpauth" => \$smtp_auth,
     "to" => \@initial_to,
     "tocmd" => \$to_cmd,
     "cc" => \@initial_cc,
@@ -310,6 +314,7 @@ my $rc = GetOptions("h" => \$help,
 		    "smtp-ssl-cert-path=s" => \$smtp_ssl_cert_path,
 		    "smtp-debug:i" => \$debug_net_smtp,
 		    "smtp-domain:s" => \$smtp_domain,
+		    "smtp-auth=s" => \$smtp_auth,
 		    "identity=s" => \$identity,
 		    "annotate!" => \$annotate,
 		    "no-annotate" => sub {$annotate = 0},
@@ -1136,6 +1141,10 @@ sub smtp_auth_maybe {
 		Authen::SASL->import(qw(Perl));
 	};
 
+	if($smtp_auth !~ /^(\b[A-Z0-9-_]{1,20}\s*)*$/) {
+		die "invalid smtp auth: '${smtp_auth}'";
+	}
+
 	# TODO: Authentication may fail not because credentials were
 	# invalid but due to other reasons, in which we should not
 	# reject credentials.
@@ -1148,6 +1157,20 @@ sub smtp_auth_maybe {
 		'password' => $smtp_authpass
 	}, sub {
 		my $cred = shift;
+
+		if($smtp_auth) {
+			my $sasl = Authen::SASL->new(
+				mechanism => $smtp_auth,
+				callback => {
+					user => $cred->{'username'},
+					pass => $cred->{'password'},
+					authname => $cred->{'username'},
+				}
+			);
+
+			return !!$smtp->auth($sasl);
+		}
+
 		return !!$smtp->auth($cred->{'username'}, $cred->{'password'});
 	});
 
-- 
2.5.0
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