Petr BaudisTommi Virtanen expressed a wish on #git to be able to use short and elegant git URLs by making git-daemon 'root' in a given directory. This patch implements this, causing git-daemon to interpret all paths relative to the given base path if any is given.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> ---
Documentation/git-daemon.txt | 11 ++++++++++- daemon.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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Documentation/git-daemon.txt, daemon.c
diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt index 2a8f371..ac67ac2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ git-daemon - A really simple server for SYNOPSIS -------- 'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all] - [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths] [directory...] + [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths] + [--base-path=path] [directory...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -35,6 +36,14 @@ OPTIONS git-daemon will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no whitelist is specified. +--base-path:: + Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path. + This is sort of "GIT root" - if you run git-daemon with + '--base-path=/srv/git' on example.com, then if you later try to pull + 'git://example.com/hello.git', `git-daemon` will interpret the path + as '/srv/git/hello.git'. Home directories (the '~login' notation) + access is disabled. + --export-all:: Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories (have the 'objects' and 'refs' subdirectories), even if they diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c index 539f6e8..3bd1426 100644 --- a/daemon.c +++ b/daemon.c @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ static int verbose; static const char daemon_usage[] = "git-daemon [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all]\n" -" [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths] [directory...]"; +" [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths]\n" +" [--base-path=path] [directory...]"; /* List of acceptable pathname prefixes */ static char **ok_paths = NULL; @@ -24,6 +25,9 @@ static int strict_paths = 0; /* If this is set, git-daemon-export-ok is not required */ static int export_all_trees = 0; +/* Take all paths relative to this one if non-NULL */ +static char *base_path = NULL; + /* Timeout, and initial timeout */ static unsigned int timeout = 0; static unsigned int init_timeout = 0; @@ -138,6 +142,17 @@ static char *path_ok(char *dir) return NULL; } + if (base_path) { + static char rpath[PATH_MAX]; + if (*dir != '/') { + /* Forbid possible base-path evasion using ~paths. */ + logerror("'%s': Non-absolute path denied (base-path active)"); + return NULL; + } + snprintf(rpath, PATH_MAX, "%s%s", base_path, dir); + dir = rpath; + } + path = enter_repo(dir, strict_paths); if (!path) { @@ -639,6 +654,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) strict_paths = 1; continue; } + if (!strncmp(arg, "--base-path=", 12)) { + base_path = arg+12; + continue; + } if (!strcmp(arg, "--")) { ok_paths = &argv[i+1]; break;
