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A set of tools for managing authorization and access control for
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ssh-based Mercurial repositories
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This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
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of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
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WHAT IT GIVES YOU
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These tools make it easier to provide a centralized repository host
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with read/write access to many repositories for many developers.
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Access control is managed with a special repository on the server
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called "hgadmin"; pushes to this repository immediately change the
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rules that are in effect.
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Inside "hgadmin" is a "keys" directory containing the SSH keys of all
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developers who have access, and a file "hg-ssh-access.conf" which
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gives a set of rules defining who can do what to what.
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HOW IT WORKS
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All of the repositories controlled by these tools are owned by a
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single user (the "hg" user in what follows), but many remote users can
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act on them.  We don't use file permissions to achieve that - instead,
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developers log in as the "hg" user when they connect to the repository
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host using ssh, using ssh URLs of the form
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"ssh://hg@repository-host/repository-name".  A restricted shell
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prevents them from using this access for unauthorized purposes.
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Developers are authenticated only using SSH keys; no other form of
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authentication is supported.  When a developer attempts to connect to
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a repository via ssh, the SSH daemon searches for a match for that
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user's key in ~hg/.ssh/authorized_keys.  If the developer is
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authorised to connect to the repository they will have an entry in
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this file.  The entry includes a "command" prefix which specifies that
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the restricted shell should be used; this shell is passed an argument
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identifying the developer.  The shell parses the command the developer
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is trying to execute, and consults a rules file to see if that
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developer is allowed to perform that action on that repository.  The
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bulk of the work of the restricted shell is done by the Python program
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"hg-ssh", but the shell script "hg-ssh-wrapper" sets up some
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configuration so that you can change it to suit your local
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installation.
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The file ~hg/.ssh/authorized_keys is generated by "refresh-auth",
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which recurses through a directory of files containing SSH keys and
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generates an entry in authorized_keys for each one, using the name of
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the key file as the identifier for the developer.  These keys will
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live in the "keys" subdirectory of a repository called "hgadmin".  A
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hook in this repository re-runs "refresh-auth" on the most recent
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version after every push.
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Finally, a hook in an extension is run for each changeset that is
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remotely committed, which uses the rules file to determine whether to
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allow the changeset.
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GETTING STARTED
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This is only one setup - it can be tweaked in many ways, and is as
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specific as it is only in the interests of brevity.
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You, and all users of this repository host, will need SSH public key
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authentication set up, preferably working with ssh-agent so you don't
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have to type in your passphrase all the time.  I assume you've done
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that in what follows, so if you've done something different you'll
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need to change it appropriately.
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Issue these commands to get the repository host started.  These are
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written out here rather than encapsulated in a script because many of
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them may need to be different for your local setup.  You will need
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root access on the repository host, because you need to create a new
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user.
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   ssh -A repository-host
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   ssh-add -L >> /tmp/my-ssh-public-key
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   sudo adduser --system --shell /bin/sh --group --disabled-password \
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     --gecos "Mercurial repositories" hg
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   sudo -u hg -H -s
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   cd
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   mkdir -p admin repos/hgadmin/keys/admin .ssh
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   cd admin
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   hg clone http://hg.opensource.lshift.net/hg-admin-tools
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   cp hg-admin-tools/hg-ssh-wrapper hg-admin-tools/remote-hgrc ~
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   cd ../repos/hgadmin
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   hg init .
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   echo "init user=admin/*" > hg-ssh-access.conf
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   cp /tmp/my-ssh-public-key keys/admin/myname
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   hg add
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   hg commit -m "initial commit"
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   cp ~/admin/hg-admin-tools/hgadmin-hgrc .hg/hgrc
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   ../../admin/hg-admin-tools/refresh-auth ./hg-ssh-wrapper
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   exit
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   exit
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You are now the sole user able to change and create repositories on
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this repository host.  To administer these controls (and test your
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access), check out hgadmin:
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   mkdir ~/hg
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   cd ~/hg
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   hg clone ssh://hg@repository-host/hgadmin
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   cd hgadmin
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You can now add other users by putting their keys in an appropriate
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subdirectory of the "keys" directory, and control their access by
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editing hg-ssh-access.conf.  Changes will take effect as soon as you
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push them to "ssh://hg@repository-host/hgadmin".
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Users authorized to do so can now also create new repositories on this
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host with "clone":
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  hg clone . ssh://hg@repository-host/my-project-name
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HG-SSH-ACCESS.CONF
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Each line of hg-ssh-access.conf has the following syntax:
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<rule> <condition> <condition> ...
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Rule is one of
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init - allow any operation, including the creation of new repositories
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write - allow reads and writes to this file in this repository
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read - allow the repo to be read but reject matching writes
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deny - deny all requests
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A condition is a globpattern matched against a relative path, one of:
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user=<globpattern> - user's key
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repo=<globpattern> - repo (as the user supplies it)
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file=<globpattern> - file in the repo
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branch=<globpattern> - name of the branch
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The first rule in the file which has all its conditions satisfied is
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used to determine whether an action is allowed.
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Paths cannot contain any special characters except "/"; glob patterns
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cannot contain any special characters except "/" and "*".  "*" matches
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zero or more characters not including "/" while "**" matches zero or
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more characters including "/".
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Blank lines and lines that start with "#" are ignored.
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FILE CONDITIONS
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The rules file is used to make four decisions:
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- Whether to allow a repository to be created
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- Whether to allow access to a repository
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- Whether to allow a changeset on a particular branch at all
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- Whether to allow a changeset to change a particular file
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When the first two of these decisions are being made, nothing is known
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about what files might be changed, and so all file conditions
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automatically succeed for the purpose of such decisions.  This means
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that doing tricky things with file conditions can have
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counterintuitive consequences:
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- You cannot limit read access to a subset of a repository with a
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"read" rule and a file condition: any user who has access to a
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repository can read all of it and its full history.  Such a rule can
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only have the effect of masking a later "write" rule, as in this
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example:
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   read repo=specialrepo file=dontwritethis
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   write repo=specialrepo
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allows all users to read specialrepo, and to write to all files
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*except* that any changeset which writes to "dontwritethis" will be
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rejected.
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- For similar reasons, don't give "init" rules file conditions.
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LOCKING YOURSELF OUT
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If you find yourself "locked out" - that is, that you no longer have
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the permissions needed in hgadmin - you can break back in again if
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you're able to become the "hg" user on the repository host.  Once you
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are that user, delete ~hg/.ssh/authorized_keys (to stop any user who
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might have access but shouldn't from using the repository while you
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fix things).  Then go into ~hg/repos/hgadmin, do an "hg update", edit
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things to your satisfaction, and commit the change.  Finally, run
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~/admin/hg-admin-tools/refresh-auth to regenerate
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~hg/.ssh/authorized_keys. 
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THANKS
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Thanks for reading this far.  If you use hg-admin-tools, please tell
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me about it.
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Paul Crowley, 2008