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Re: [PATCH] Authentication support for pserver

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org>
Date
Jun 19, 2008, 17:38 UTC
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avar@cpan.org (Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason) writes:
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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:
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 1. http://git.nix.is/?p=avar/git;a=commitdiff;h=60f893bd9fe329bd5cf8ec513d10ec00e85feb2c

It has been over 3 months since I submitted this patch without anyone acting on it. In absence of comment from the Mart[yi]ns could this please applied anyway?

Previous: Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonNext: Martin Langhoff
Message 11 of 25 in “Authentication support for pserver”
  1. Authentication support for pserverÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 14, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2007
  3. Shawn O. PearceDec 14, 2007
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 14, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2007
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 14, 2007
  7. Martin LanghoffDec 18, 2007
  8. Martin LanghoffDec 18, 2007
  9. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMar 7, 2008
  10. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMar 7, 2008
  11. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 19, 2008
  12. Martin LanghoffJun 19, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2008
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2008
  15. 0/6 git-cvsserver: password support for pserverÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 15, 2010
  16. 1/6 git-cvsserver: authentication support for pserverÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 15, 2010
  17. 1/6 git-cvsserver: authentication support for pserverÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 15, 2010
  18. 2/6 git-cvsserver: use a password file cvsserver pserverÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 15, 2010
  19. 2/6 git-cvsserver: use a password file cvsserver pserverÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 15, 2010
  20. 3/6 git-cvsserver: indent & clean up authdb codeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 15, 2010
  21. 4/6 git-cvsserver: Improved error handling for pserverÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 15, 2010
  22. 5/6 git-cvsserver: document making a password without htpasswdÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 15, 2010
  23. 6/6 git-cvsserver: test for pserver authentication supportÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 15, 2010
  24. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 18, 2007
  25. Junio C HamanoDec 18, 2007

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