mercurial-server: doc/security@3035990989ee (annotated)

83 86ec1268d306 Move some docs out of the README to make it less daunting Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: diff changeset	1	SECURITY OF MERCURIAL-SERVER
86ec1268d306 Move some docs out of the README to make it less daunting Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: diff changeset	2
111 eace50ec6427 Fix a minor inaccuracy in the security docs Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 104 diff changeset	3	mercurial-server relies entirely on sshd to grant access to remote users.
eace50ec6427 Fix a minor inaccuracy in the security docs Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 104 diff changeset	4	As a result, it runs no daemons, installs no setuid programs, and no part
eace50ec6427 Fix a minor inaccuracy in the security docs Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 104 diff changeset	5	of it runs as root except the install process: all programs run as the user
eace50ec6427 Fix a minor inaccuracy in the security docs Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 104 diff changeset	6	hg. And any attack on mercurial-server can only be started if the Bad Guys
eace50ec6427 Fix a minor inaccuracy in the security docs Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 104 diff changeset	7	already have a public key in ~hg/.ssh/authorized_keys, otherwise sshd will
eace50ec6427 Fix a minor inaccuracy in the security docs Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 104 diff changeset	8	bar the way.
83 86ec1268d306 Move some docs out of the README to make it less daunting Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: diff changeset	9
111 eace50ec6427 Fix a minor inaccuracy in the security docs Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 104 diff changeset	10	No matter what command the user tries to run on the remote system via ssh,
eace50ec6427 Fix a minor inaccuracy in the security docs Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 104 diff changeset	11	mercurial-server is run. It parses the command line the user asked for, and
eace50ec6427 Fix a minor inaccuracy in the security docs Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 104 diff changeset	12	interprets and runs the corresponding hg operation itself if access is
eace50ec6427 Fix a minor inaccuracy in the security docs Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 104 diff changeset	13	allowed, so users can only read and add to history within repositories;
eace50ec6427 Fix a minor inaccuracy in the security docs Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 104 diff changeset	14	they cannot run any other hg command. In addition, every push and pull is
eace50ec6427 Fix a minor inaccuracy in the security docs Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 104 diff changeset	15	logged with a datestamp, changeset ID and the key that performed the
eace50ec6427 Fix a minor inaccuracy in the security docs Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 104 diff changeset	16	operation.
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104 d9665b290636 Fix remark in security documentation Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 83 diff changeset	18	However, while the first paragraph holds no matter what bugs
d9665b290636 Fix remark in security documentation Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 83 diff changeset	19	mercurial-server contains, the second depends on the relevant code being
d9665b290636 Fix remark in security documentation Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 83 diff changeset	20	correct; though the entire codebase is short, mercurial-server is a fairly
d9665b290636 Fix remark in security documentation Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: 83 diff changeset	21	new program and may harbour bugs. Backups are
83 86ec1268d306 Move some docs out of the README to make it less daunting Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net> parents: diff changeset	22	essential!

author	Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net>
	Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:22:30 +0100
changeset 112	3035990989ee
parent 111	eace50ec6427
child 113	dd545202d663
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