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mercurial-server
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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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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.
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QUICK START
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You will need 
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- "sudo" installed
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- "sudo" root privileges
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- an ssh-key set up with ssh-agent
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Ensure there is no user called "hg" on the repository host, and run
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"./install" to create them. You are now the sole user able to change
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and create repositories on this repository host.  To give access to
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others, check out hgadmin - as yourself, and on whichever host is most
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convenient, but using the ssh-key with which you set up the
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repository:
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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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- Don't try to deny write access to a particular file on a particular
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branch - a developer can write to the file on another branch and then
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merge it in.  Either deny all writes to the branch from that user, or
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allow them to write to all the files they can write to on any branch.
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In other words, something like this will have the intended effect
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  write user=docs/* branch=docs file=docs/*
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But something like this will not have the intended effect; it will
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effectively allow these users to write to any file on any branch, by
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writing it to "docs" first:
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  write user=docs/* branch=docs
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  write user=docs/* file=docs/*
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  read user=docs/*
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HOW IT WORKS
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When a developer attempts to connect to a repository via ssh, the SSH
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daemon searches for a match for that user's key in
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~hg/.ssh/authorized_keys.  If the developer is authorised to connect
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to the repository they will have an entry in this file.  The entry
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includes a "command" prefix which specifies that the restricted shell
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should be used; this shell is passed an argument identifying the
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developer.  The shell parses the command the developer is trying to
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execute, and consults a rules file to see if that developer is allowed
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to perform that action on that repository.  The bulk of the work of
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the restricted shell is done by the Python program "hg-ssh", but the
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shell script "hg-ssh-wrapper" sets up some configuration so that you
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can change it to suit your local 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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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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~hg/admin/mercurial-server/refresh-auth ~hg/.ssh/authorized_keys ./hg-ssh-wrapper
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to regenerate ~hg/.ssh/authorized_keys. 
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THANKS
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Thanks for reading this far.  If you use mercurial-server, please tell
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me about it.
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