Re: [PATCH] Authentication support for pserver

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avar@xxxxxxxx (Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason) writes:

> avar@xxxxxxxx (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@xxxxxxxx>
> 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@xxxxxxxx>
> Worriedly-Acked-by: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  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 $user was incorrect\n";
> -                print "I HATE YOU\n";
> -                exit 1;
> -            }
> -            # else fall through to LOVE
>          }
> +        # else fall through to LOVE
>      }
>  
>      # For checking whether the user is anonymous on commit
> -- 
> 1.5.3.rc3.120.g68d422
>
>
> From e8b69f313888900447f45ac3a8dceb38bd5c261e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: =?utf-8?q?=C3=86var=20Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0=20Bjarmason?= <avar@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 23:43:13 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] Indent the last commit to fit with the rest of the code.
>
> Use lexical filehandles instead of global globs
>
> Close the filehandle after the password database has been read
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  git-cvsserver.perl |   23 +++++++++++++----------
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
> index e54cbcd..f956ac9 100755
> --- a/git-cvsserver.perl
> +++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
> @@ -161,16 +161,19 @@ if ($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@xxxxxxxx>
> 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
> $hash would accept any password
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  git-cvsserver.perl |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
> index f956ac9..aa0299e 100755
> --- a/git-cvsserver.perl
> +++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
> @@ -154,19 +154,36 @@ if ($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@xxxxxxxx>
> 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@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  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)' $USER password
> +-----
> +
>  Then provide your password via the pserver method, for example:
>  ------
>     cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword <at> server/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name>
> -- 
> 1.5.3.rc3.120.g68d422
>
>
> From 60f893bd9fe329bd5cf8ec513d10ec00e85feb2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: =?utf-8?q?=C3=86var=20Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0=20Bjarmason?= <avar@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:06:31 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] exit after producing the error about anonymous having a password
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  git-cvsserver.perl |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
> index aa0299e..da48ebd 100755
> --- a/git-cvsserver.perl
> +++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
> @@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ if ($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?
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