From: Jason at zx2c4.com (Jason A. Donenfeld)
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Add config option user-envvar
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:11:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHmME9qv4FOjKS-ZHn-i7xuY=GXCfSYi8s0OhKte=VeXv=OVcQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350378927-10834-2-git-send-email-valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> When cgit sits on a backend server and relies on a set of
> front-ends to do authentication, it will read the username
> from an environment variable defined by this option.
>
> In this way, one can safely use any forwarded HTTP header
> and not only the expected REMOTE_USER variable set by the
> CGI standard.
Why is this necessary at all? Won't helper programs be given the full
environment of the parent program (cgit<--cgi server), and so it can
be up to the helper script to determine the username by getting the
env var itself? The book keeping inside cgit in this patch seems
wasteful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-28 1:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-16 9:15 [PATCH 0/3] Implement authorization via external program valentin.haenel
2012-10-16 9:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add config option user-envvar valentin.haenel
2012-10-28 1:11 ` Jason [this message]
2012-10-29 9:49 ` valentin.haenel
2012-10-16 9:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add ability to authorize viewing a repository valentin.haenel
2012-10-16 11:21 ` Jason
2012-10-16 12:48 ` valentin.haenel
2012-10-16 9:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add ability to authorize viewing a repository using valentin.haenel
2012-10-16 9:17 ` valentin.haenel
2012-10-16 9:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] Helper script to interface to gitolite valentin.haenel
2012-10-22 8:29 ` [PATCHv2 1/3] Add config option user-envvar valentin.haenel
2012-10-28 1:00 ` mathstuf
2012-10-29 9:22 ` valentin.haenel
2012-10-29 14:53 ` mathstuf
2012-10-29 15:50 ` valentin.haenel
2012-10-22 8:29 ` [PATCHv2 2/3] Add ability to authorize viewing a repository valentin.haenel
2012-10-28 1:00 ` mathstuf
2012-10-28 1:16 ` Jason
2012-10-28 1:29 ` mathstuf
2012-10-28 1:33 ` Jason
2012-10-29 9:43 ` valentin.haenel
2012-10-29 14:52 ` mathstuf
2012-10-29 15:45 ` valentin.haenel
2012-10-28 1:17 ` Jason
2012-10-29 12:38 ` valentin.haenel
2012-10-30 9:54 ` valentin.haenel
2012-10-28 1:14 ` Jason
2012-10-29 9:36 ` valentin.haenel
2012-10-22 8:29 ` [PATCHv2 3/3] Helper script to interface to gitolite valentin.haenel
2012-10-28 1:00 ` mathstuf
2012-10-29 9:27 ` valentin.haenel
2012-10-30 10:11 ` [PATCHv3 0/3] Implement authorization via external program (v3) valentin.haenel
2012-10-30 15:04 ` mathstuf
2012-10-30 16:30 ` Jason
2012-10-30 10:11 ` [PATCHv3 1/3] Add config option user-envvar valentin.haenel
2012-10-30 16:29 ` Jason
2012-10-30 10:11 ` [PATCHv3 2/3] Add ability to authorize viewing a repository valentin.haenel
2012-10-30 16:30 ` Jason
2012-10-30 10:11 ` [PATCHv3 3/3] Helper script to interface to gitolite valentin.haenel
2012-10-30 15:05 ` mathstuf
2012-10-31 18:50 ` [PATCHv4 0/2] Authorize viewing a repository valentin.haenel
2012-10-31 18:52 ` [PATCHv4 1/2] Add ability to authorize " valentin.haenel
2012-10-31 18:52 ` [PATCHv4 2/2] Helper script to interface to gitolite valentin.haenel
2012-11-01 3:03 ` jamie.couture
2012-11-01 3:23 ` mathstuf
2012-11-01 4:20 ` Jason
2012-11-01 4:31 ` mathstuf
2012-11-01 8:58 ` valentin.haenel
2012-11-01 17:32 ` Jason
2012-11-01 10:40 ` [PATCHv4 0/2] Authorize viewing a repository valentin.haenel
2012-11-01 17:27 ` Jason
2012-11-01 17:32 ` valentin.haenel
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