The old install method will now use conf/VERSION instead of src/VERSION everywhere.
The new one, if you use the builtin make file to "make branch.tar" will also create just such a file
if you have read access to the admin repo, you can say
ssh git@server info user1 [...]
Original idea and code by Karteek E. The motivation is to quickly and
easily check what perms a user has. Technically nothing that you can't
glean from the config file itself but it serves as a double check or a
mild debugging aid perhaps.
However note that the branch level rules are much more complex and they
do not, as yet, have any such "helpful" aids. Life is like that
sometimes.
Although I have washed my hands off the security aspect if you use
external commands, that doesn't mean I won't make them as tight as I can
;-) Right now, this is just a place holder -- if people use it and
complain that the pattern is too restrictive, I'll change it.
The wildrepos branch has been merged into master, and deleted. It will no
longer exist as a separate branch. Instead, a new variable
called $GL_WILDREPOS has been added which acts as a switch; when
off (which is the default), many wildrepos features are disabled.
(the "C" permissions, and the getperms (etc.) commands mainly).
Important: if you are using wildrepos, please set "$GL_WILDREPOS = 1;" in
the RC file when you upgrade to this version (or just before you do the
upgrade).
Allow users to set and display description (for gitweb) for their
own wildcard repositories using ssh commands:
setdesc <repo>
getdesc <repo>
Signed-off-by: Teemu Matilainen <teemu.matilainen@reaktor.fi>
brought on by realising that you lost $shell_allowed when refactoring
(previous commit) but perl hadn't caught it because -- damn -- you
didn't have "use strict" in gitolite.pm
lots of conflicts, esp in gl-auth-command, due to refactoring the
"special commands" stuff on master
Conflicts:
doc/3-faq-tips-etc.mkd
src/gitolite.pm
src/gl-auth-command
src/gl-compile-conf
great idea by Robin Smidsrød: since users are already capable of
authenticating themselves to gitolite via ssh keys, use that to let them
set or change their own HTTP passwords (ie, run the "htpasswd" command
with the correct parameters on behalf of the "git" user on the server)
code, rc para, and documentation. In fact everything except... ahem...
testing ;-)
and while we're about it, we also reorganised the way these helper
commands (including the venerable "info" are called)
This is actually a pretty big deal, and I am seriously starting wonder
if calling this "gito*lite*" is justified anymore.
Anyway, in for a penny, in for a pound...
This patch implements a generic way to allow access control for external
commands, as long as they are invoked via ssh and present a server-side
command that contains enough information to make an access control
decision.
The first (and only, so far) such command implemented is rsync.
Please read the changes in this commit (at least the ones in conf/ and
doc/) carefully.
Mpenz asked what would happen if the config looked like
repo foo/abc
R sitaram
repo foo/.*
RW sitaram
If you asked for an expand of '.*', it would pick up permissions from
the second set (i.e., "RW") and print them against "foo/abc".
This is misleading, since those are not the permissions that will
actually be *used*. Gitolite always uses the more specific form if it
is given, which means your actual permissions are just "R".
This patch is to prevent that misleading reporting in this corner case.
- see *all* wildcard repos you have access to (this uses line-anchored
regexes as described in doc/4). Examples:
ssh git@server expand '.*'
ssh git@server expand 'assignment.*'
- show perms like the info command does
Please see comments against 02cee1d for more details and caveats.
gitolite specific ssh commands ("getperms", "setperms", "info" etc.)
should exit with non-error code in case of success.
Also "get/setperms" should print to STDOUT instead of STDERR.
This change is specially needed for the gitolite-tools
(http://github.com/tmatilai/gitolite-tools) to work.
Signed-off-by: Teemu Matilainen <teemu.matilainen@reaktor.fi>
we've removed the facility of auto-viving "W" access repos when they are
not wildcards. A wildcard pattern like foo/CREATER was
indistinguishable from a non-wildcard repo, and resolving it was
becoming kludgier and kludgier. (See the revert in the commit before
this one for details).
As a side effect of not being able to distinguish wildcard repos from
real repos easily, the expand command now works for a normal repo too
(because we have to make it work for "foo/CREATER")
This reverts commit 33fc0a7e9f.
Was causing too much trouble with access reporting (basic and expanded)
because of the extra ^ at the start...
The paranoia referred to in that commit was this sequence:
- admin creates a named (non wildcard) repo using config file push
- somehow that gets deleted (OS error, corruption, ...)
- admin just asks anyone with a current repo to push it to auto-revive
it (because we allow people with "W" access to non-wildcard repos to
auto-viv repos)
- if you're treating this the same as a wildcard creation, you end up
making this guy the "creater" of that repo, which means he can add
users etc...
We resolve that paranois by disallowing autoviv of "W" access repos at
all... Only "C" access repos can be autovived by a user (this will be
in the next commit)
Teemu's testing brought up a situtation I had not anticipated:
"repo foo/CREATER" looks like a non-regex, and its creation then (a)
goes by "W" permissions instead of "C" permissions, and (b) the
creater's name does not get recorded (no gl-creater file).
SIDE NOTE: one way is to reduce the paranoia, and just put the
creater name in anyway. Treat a repo created from gl-auth as a
wildcard-matched autovivified repo, because the *other* kind would
have actually got created by gl-compile anyway.
However, I can think of *one* very far-out situation where this
could backfire on an unwary admin, and I'm paranoid :-)
So we need to force it to look like a regex. Moving the line-anchoring
from `parse_acl` to gl-compile sounded fine, until I realised that the
"$" isn't easy. Backslashitis, bigtime, plus the single/double quote
tricks we're playing with the dumped hash adds its own complexities.
Best of both worlds, promote the "^" to gl-compile, keep the "$" where
it is...!
we had usurped the email style syntax to separate multiple keys
belonging to the same person, like sitaram@desktop.pub and
sitaram@laptop.pub. If you have so many users that you need the full
email address to disambiguate some of them (or you want to do it for
just plain convenience), you couldn't.
This patch fixes that in a backward compatible way. See
doc/3-faq-tips-etc.mkd for details.
This feature has *no* warranty, and so no documentation. Not more than
this transcript anyway.
config file:
@prof = u1
@TAs = u2 u3
@students = u4 u5 u6
repo assignments/CREATER/a[0-9][0-9]
C = @students
RW+ = CREATER
RW = WRITERS @TAs
R = READERS @prof
session:
as user "u4":
# check your permissions
$ ssh git@server
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
hello u4, the gitolite version here is v0.95-31-gbcb14ca
you have the following permissions:
C assignments/CREATER/a[0-9][0-9]
@ @ testing
Connection to localhost closed.
# autovivify repos for assignment 12 and 24
$ git clone git@server:assignments/u4/a12 a12
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/sitaram/t/a12/.git/
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/gitolite/repositories/assignments/u4/a12.git/
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
$ git clone git@server:assignments/u4/a24 a24
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/sitaram/t/a24/.git/
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/gitolite/repositories/assignments/u4/a24.git/
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
# check what repos you autovivified
$ ssh git@server expand assignments/u4/a[0-9][0-9]
(u4) assignments/u4/a12
(u4) assignments/u4/a24
as user "u5":
# check your basic permissions
$ ssh git@server
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
hello u5, the gitolite version here is v0.95-31-gbcb14ca
you have the following permissions:
C assignments/CREATER/a[0-9][0-9]
@ @ testing
Connection to localhost closed.
# see if you have access to any of u4's repos
$ ssh git@server expand assignments/u4/a[0-9][0-9]
# (no output produced)
as user "u4":
# allow "u5" read access to assignment 12
# note you type in "R u5", hit enter, then hit Ctrl-D. Gitolite
# then produces a confirmation message starting "New perms are:"
$ ssh git@server setperms assignments/u4/a12
R u5
New perms are:
R u5
as user "u5":
# again see if you have access to any u4 repos
$ ssh git@server expand assignments/u4/a[0-9][0-9]
(u4) assignments/u4/a12
as user "u4":
# check what permissions you gave to assignment 12
$ ssh git@server getperms assignments/u4/a12
R u5
# add RW access to "u6" to assignment 12
# again, type 'em in, then hit Ctrl-D; and note each time you run
# this you're starting from scratch -- you can't "add to" the
# permissions. Deal with it...
$ ssh git@server setperms assignments/u4/a12
R u5
RW u6
New perms are:
R u5
RW u6
as user "u6":
# check what u4 stuff you have access to
$ ssh git@server expand assignments/u4/a[0-9][0-9]
(u4) assignments/u4/a12
- new_repo now takes a "creater" parameter; if given, this user is
recorded (in a file called "gl-creater") as the creater of the repo.
Only applicable to wildcards
- repo_rights reads "gl-creater" and "gl-perms" to tell you who
created it, and whether you (the $user) are in the list of READERS
or WRITERS
**NOTE** that the mechanism to create/update gl-perms has not been
written yet... (as of this commit)
- parse_acl takes 4 more arguments, all optional. The repo name we're
interested in (set by all except the access reporting function), and
the names to be interpolated as $creater, $readers, writers
- report_basic now knows about the "C" permission and shows it
- auth now autovivifies a repo if the user has "C" and it's a wildcard
match, or (the old case) the user has "W" and it's not a wildcard.
In the former case, the creater is also set
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES:
- the Dumper code now uses a custom hash key sort to make sure
$creater etc land up at the *end*
- a wee bit of duplication exists in the update hook; it borrows a
little code from parse_acl. I dont (yet) want to include all of
gitolite.pm for that little piece...
There's a new "C" permission to let someone *create* a repo that matches
the pattern given in the "repo ..." line. If the word CREATER appears
in the repo pattern, then that is forced to the actual user performing
that operation.
Something like this (we'll discuss READERS and WRITERS later):
repo personal/CREATER/.+
C = @staff
R [foo] = READERS
RW [bar] = WRITERS
...various other permissions as usual...
Delegation checking also changes quite a bit... see comments in code
Implementation: there's also a sneaky little trick we're playing here
with the dumped hash
all of this is prep for the upcoming, all-new, chrome-plated,
"wildrepos" branch :)
- many variables go to gitolite.pm now, and are "our"d into the other
files as needed
- new functions parse_acl, report_basic to replace inlined code
Packaging gitolite for debian requires the rc file to be in /etc/gitolite.
But non-root installs must still be supported, and they need it in $HOME.
This means the rc file is no longer in a fixed place, which needs code to find
the rc file first. See comments inside new file 'gitolite.pm' for details.
The rest of the changes are in the other programs, to replace the hard-coded
rc filename with a call to this new code.
