git-cvsserver: document making a password without htpasswd

[git.git] / git-cvsserver.perl

diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
index 709741920f19a057a352d29a5b24c1ac6f7ed2c1..3833beeef38c35bf5da0407e89a959874a253307 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-cvsserver.perl
+++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
@@ -187,26 +187,49 @@ 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";
+            exit 1;
+        }
+
+        # Fall through to LOVE
+    } else {
         # 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] section with an 'authdb' parameter set to the filename of the authentication database\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 $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;
-        } 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
         }
+
+        my $auth_ok;
+        open my $passwd, "<", $authdb or die $!;
+        while (<$passwd>) {
+            if (m{^\Q$user\E:(.*)}) {
+                if (crypt($user, descramble($password)) eq $1) {
+                    $auth_ok = 1;
+                }
+            };
+        }
+        close $passwd;
+
+        unless ($auth_ok) {
+            print "I HATE YOU\n";
+            exit 1;
+        }
+
+        # Fall through to LOVE
     }
 
     # For checking whether the user is anonymous on commit
@@ -337,7 +360,7 @@ sub req_Root
     }
     foreach my $line ( @gitvars )
     {
-        next unless ( $line =~ /^(gitcvs)\.(?:(ext|pserver|users)\.)?([\w-]+)=(.*)$/ );
+        next unless ( $line =~ /^(gitcvs)\.(?:(ext|pserver)\.)?([\w-]+)=(.*)$/ );
         unless ($2) {
             $cfg->{$1}{$3} = $4;
         } else {