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Sitaram Chamarty 2456cc17c8 personal branches: de-emphasise old-style, document new-style
There are some disadvantages to the old-style personal branch scheme.
It only allows one specific pattern (of refname) to be used, forces that
pattern to be applicable to *all* repos in the entire config, and
requires editing the rc file (on the server) to be edited to achieve
this.

In other words, it's a very blunt instrument...

The new style depends on using lines like this within a specific repo
config:

        RW+ personal/USER/      =   @userlist

The important thing is that the "branch" name should contain `/USER/`
(including the slashes).  Access is still determined by the right hand
side of course.

This gives you the following advantages:

  - allow it only for repos that need it
  - allow different patterns to be used for different repos
  - allow *multiple* patterns; just add more than one such line
  - allow the pattern to have suffixes (eg: foo/USER/bar)
2010-03-16 18:27:26 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty b3945d44c9 docs and .gitattributes hadn't been updated for the change in hooks dir 2010-03-10 06:24:53 +05:30
Eli Barzilay 9f805646fe minor typos 2010-02-27 12:32:28 +05:30
Eli Barzilay 4cf18d8339 make Emacs use perl mode 2010-02-27 12:31:44 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 0e96c2f08a example conf: doc on NAME/ being a refex etc was not clear 2010-02-08 09:59:27 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty a6b7928bc1 example RC: GL_GITCONFIG_KEYS was not showing up in easy install diff 2010-02-08 06:02:36 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty a472bf30df compile: tighten up the 'git config' feature
Gitolite allows you to set git repo options using the "config" keyword;
see conf/example.conf for details and syntax.

However, if you are in an installation where the repo admin does not
(and should not) have shell access to the server, then allowing him to
set arbitrary repo config options *may* be a security risk -- some
config settings may allow executing arbitrary commands.

This patch fixes it, introducing a new RC variable to control the
behaviour.  See conf/example.gitolite.rc for details
2010-02-07 13:23:07 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 388f4d873d (IMPORTANT; read this in full) no more "wildrepos"
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).
2010-02-07 13:22:43 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty c43560d2ef Merge branch 'master' into wildrepos
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
2010-02-04 14:42:10 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 67c10a34fe auth: new subcommand "htpasswd"
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)
2010-02-04 11:55:24 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 09195afd44 document deny rules a bit better 2010-02-01 15:59:03 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 98a4c79dce (read this in full) access control for non-git commands running over ssh
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.
2010-02-01 11:49:21 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 76f8615a92 Merge branch 'pu' into pu-wildrepos 2010-01-29 09:12:24 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 7afaafc54a document the "include" mechanism 2010-01-27 16:48:56 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty bede47e2db Merge branch 'master' into wildrepos
Conflicts:
	src/hooks/update
2010-01-14 20:47:04 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty ecfd20e793 @SHELL is now $SHELL_USERS in the rc file (warning: backward compat breakage)
Stop conflating the privilege to push changes to the admin repo with the
privilege to get a shell on the server.

Please read doc/6 carefully before upgrading to this version.  Also
please ensure that the gitolite key is *not* your only means to get a
command line on the server
2010-01-14 19:35:46 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 7124faa9f3 NAME-based restrictions
Gitolite allows you to restrict changes by file/dir name.  The syntax
for this used "PATH/" as a prefix to denote such file/dir patterns.
This has now been changed to "NAME/" because PATH is potentially
confusing.

While this is technically a backward-incompatible change, the feature
itself was hitherto undocumented, and only a few people were using it,
so I guess it's not that bad...

Also added documentation now.
2010-01-09 20:30:53 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 1a80f0182d Merge branch 'master' into wildrepos 2009-12-23 20:00:56 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty b0ce84d47f document @SHELL feature, allow "info" for all,
...but still distinguish shell folks with a small extra line telling
them they have shell access
2009-12-23 19:57:36 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 203d5690be Merge branch '@all-for-repos' into wildrepos
Conflicts:
	src/gl-compile-conf
2009-12-21 23:02:02 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty ba3cbd7ecf doc/3, conf: document @all for repos
plus some refactoring of doc/3
2009-12-21 22:58:47 +05:30
Teemu Matilainen f37fb45144 compile: support "repo @all" definitions
"repo @all" can be used to set permissions or configurations for all
already defined repos.  (A repository is defined if it has permission
rules associated, empty "repo" stanza or "@group=..." line is not enough.)

For example to allow a backup user to clone all repos:

  # All other configuration
  [...]
  repo @all
       R = backup

Signed-off-by: Teemu Matilainen <teemu.matilainen@reaktor.fi>
2009-12-21 22:11:21 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty ff28acb059 Merge branch 'master' into wildrepos
master brought in:

  - full email addresses as usernames
  - repo-specific git config

Conflicts:
	doc/3-faq-tips-etc.mkd
	src/gitolite.pm
	src/gl-compile-conf
2009-12-11 11:23:26 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 64979c18ea document repo config support 2009-12-09 12:16:22 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 38255e4096 merge "allow full email addresses as usernames"
Merge branch 'pu'
2009-12-08 15:14:29 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 4441ed82e4 compile: allow full email addresses as usernames
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.
2009-12-08 15:14:05 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty cdb7245d44 example conf: clarify what @all means
...thanks to Grum for catching this
2009-12-08 13:51:11 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 6214ad3ab6 wildrepos: first cut documentation 2009-12-06 20:36:12 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 8a4bb453a0 document that @all doesnt work as expected in deny rules
@all in a deny rule doesnt work as it might look in the config file,
because @all rights are checked last.  This is fine if you dont have any
DENYs (and so rule order doesn't matter), but with DENY it causes some
problems.

I never bothered to document it because I did not expect that any repo
that is "serious" enough to have deny rules *at all* should then allow
*any* kind of "write* access to @all.  That's a very big contradiction
in terms of paranoia!

Translation: this will not be supported.  Don't bother asking.  You know
who you are :)
2009-12-05 14:57:21 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty d71720d050 fold rebel into master :) [please read]
Well, something even more outrageous than deny rules and path-based
limits came along, so I decided that "rebel" was actually quite
"conformist" in comparision ;-)

Jokes apart, the fact is that the access control rules, even when using
deny rules and path-limits, are still *auditable*.  Which means it is
good enough for "corporate use".

[The stuff that I'm working on now takes away the auditability aspect --
individual users can "own" repos, create rules for themselves, etc.

So let's just say that is the basis of distinguishing "master" now.]
2009-12-01 07:15:05 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 604669ca02 rebel edition -- cos when you need it, you need it bad :-)
Summary: much as I did not want to use "excludes", I guess if we don't put the
code in "master" it's OK to at least *write* (and test) the code!

See the example config file for how to use it.

See "design choices" section in the "faq, tips, etc" document for how it
works.
2009-12-01 05:55:58 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty bfc3b6cd58 example conf: clarify group name parsing 2009-11-30 07:00:31 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty d8cb62934f docs: document how to specify "owner" for gitweb 2009-11-27 13:47:33 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 012d4b1fb6 example conf: total reformat/refactor, include gitweb description 2009-11-12 18:54:22 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 92d5062ad0 doc/src: major doc/help text revamp
also removed some dead code from compile (pre PTA days)
2009-10-31 00:21:37 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 8eefc036e0 rc, pta-hook/doc: don't assume $HOME of 'git' user is /home/git
(Thanks to Jerome Arbez-Gindre)
2009-10-23 10:23:06 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 8e47e0117a easy install: much more idempotent...
- example config file is now all comments (should have been that way anyway)
  - we detect if it is an upgrade and act accordingly (see below)

IMPORTANT: we assume that $admin_name remains the same in an upgrade -- that's
how we detect it is an upgrade!  Change that name or his pubkey, and you're
toast!
2009-10-14 13:40:49 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty b3cab456d5 easy-install: committed before testing? tsk tsk tsk! 2009-10-13 10:16:27 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 59e15e62a1 support git installed outside default $PATH
(also some minor fixes to doc/3)
2009-10-13 10:03:12 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty d78bbe8c3e lots of doc changes reflecting "push to admin" is default now :)
- added comments to easy install to help do it manually
  - README: some stuff moved to tips doc, brief summary of extras
    (over gitosis) added
  - INSTALL: major revamp, easy install and manual install,
    much shorter and much more readable!

plus other docs changed as needed, and updated the tips doc to roll in
some details from "update.mkd" in the "ml" branch
2009-10-11 14:19:00 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 2f2af033f5 pta-hook.sh: collect delegated config fragments
collect the delegated config fragments from correspondingly named branches of
the gitolite-admin repo, and put them all in conf/fragments/

also deprecate changes to conf and keydir locations from now on
2009-10-04 10:10:40 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 1b9969f3d6 auth: better message, remove unsightly perl warning on bad command 2009-09-27 23:52:04 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 70d26d810b compile, all docs/confs: specify gitweb/daemon access + bonus
bonus: documented the "bits and pieces" thing properly; should have done this
long ago, but it came to the forefront now thanks to this item
2009-09-25 13:50:59 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 2285e75c22 example rc: say that $PERSONAL must start with "refs/" 2009-09-21 19:36:39 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 344723b974 conf+doc/3: explain why we don't like "exclude rules" in refexes 2009-09-21 19:36:38 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 5415b425e7 example conf, doc/3: explain refexes 2009-09-21 19:36:38 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty df3dd0de48 compile, rc, doc/3: allow custom umask 2009-09-21 14:49:27 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 86faae4d4c compile+conf: allow lists (@listname) for reponames too
why should just usernames have all the fun :)  The "expand_userlist" function
is now "expand_list" and serves generically.  The example conf has also been
updated correspondingly
2009-09-17 20:03:38 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 3d44b003c8 clarifications in various messages etc
(thanks to SethX for feedback)

  - install: a little more verbosity in the mkdir
  - install and example conf: some of the help text made more clear
  - auth: error message on bad $cmd is now clearer, plus no perl-warnings to
    confuse people
2009-09-10 21:26:25 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 804c70f570 almost all src/conf: logging totally redone, upgrade doc added
- logs go into $GL_ADMINDIR/logs by default, named by year-month
  - logfile name template (including dir prefix) now in $GL_LOGT
  - two new env vars passed down: GL_TS and GL_LOG (timestamp, logfilename)
  - log messages timestamps more compact, fields tab-delimited
  - old and new SHAs cut to 14 characters
2009-09-06 18:07:38 +05:30