#ifndef CREDENTIAL_H #define CREDENTIAL_H #include "string-list.h" /** * The credentials API provides an abstracted way of gathering username and * password credentials from the user. * * Typical setup * ------------- * * ------------ * +-----------------------+ * | Git code (C) |--- to server requiring ---> * | | authentication * |.......................| * | C credential API |--- prompt ---> User * +-----------------------+ * ^ | * | pipe | * | v * +-----------------------+ * | Git credential helper | * +-----------------------+ * ------------ * * The Git code (typically a remote-helper) will call the C API to obtain * credential data like a login/password pair (credential_fill). The * API will itself call a remote helper (e.g. "git credential-cache" or * "git credential-store") that may retrieve credential data from a * store. If the credential helper cannot find the information, the C API * will prompt the user. Then, the caller of the API takes care of * contacting the server, and does the actual authentication. * * C API * ----- * * The credential C API is meant to be called by Git code which needs to * acquire or store a credential. It is centered around an object * representing a single credential and provides three basic operations: * fill (acquire credentials by calling helpers and/or prompting the user), * approve (mark a credential as successfully used so that it can be stored * for later use), and reject (mark a credential as unsuccessful so that it * can be erased from any persistent storage). * * Example * ~~~~~~~ * * The example below shows how the functions of the credential API could be * used to login to a fictitious "foo" service on a remote host: * * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * int foo_login(struct foo_connection *f) * { * int status; * // Create a credential with some context; we don't yet know the * // username or password. * * struct credential c = CREDENTIAL_INIT; * c.protocol = xstrdup("foo"); * c.host = xstrdup(f->hostname); * * // Fill in the username and password fields by contacting * // helpers and/or asking the user. The function will die if it * // fails. * credential_fill(&c); * * // Otherwise, we have a username and password. Try to use it. * * status = send_foo_login(f, c.username, c.password); * switch (status) { * case FOO_OK: * // It worked. Store the credential for later use. * credential_accept(&c); * break; * case FOO_BAD_LOGIN: * // Erase the credential from storage so we don't try it again. * credential_reject(&c); * break; * default: * // Some other error occurred. We don't know if the * // credential is good or bad, so report nothing to the * // credential subsystem. * } * * // Free any associated resources. * credential_clear(&c); * * return status; * } * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * * Credential Helpers * ------------------ * * Credential helpers are programs executed by Git to fetch or save * credentials from and to long-term storage (where "long-term" is simply * longer than a single Git process; e.g., credentials may be stored * in-memory for a few minutes, or indefinitely on disk). * * Each helper is specified by a single string in the configuration * variable `credential.helper` (and others, see Documentation/git-config.txt). * The string is transformed by Git into a command to be executed using * these rules: * * 1. If the helper string begins with "!", it is considered a shell * snippet, and everything after the "!" becomes the command. * * 2. Otherwise, if the helper string begins with an absolute path, the * verbatim helper string becomes the command. * * 3. Otherwise, the string "git credential-" is prepended to the helper * string, and the result becomes the command. * * The resulting command then has an "operation" argument appended to it * (see below for details), and the result is executed by the shell. * * Here are some example specifications: * * ---------------------------------------------------- * # run "git credential-foo" * foo * * # same as above, but pass an argument to the helper * foo --bar=baz * * # the arguments are parsed by the shell, so use shell * # quoting if necessary * foo --bar="whitespace arg" * * # you can also use an absolute path, which will not use the git wrapper * /path/to/my/helper --with-arguments * * # or you can specify your own shell snippet * !f() { echo "password=`cat $HOME/.secret`"; }; f * ---------------------------------------------------- * * Generally speaking, rule (3) above is the simplest for users to specify. * Authors of credential helpers should make an effort to assist their * users by naming their program "git-credential-$NAME", and putting it in * the $PATH or $GIT_EXEC_PATH during installation, which will allow a user * to enable it with `git config credential.helper $NAME`. * * When a helper is executed, it will have one "operation" argument * appended to its command line, which is one of: * * `get`:: * * Return a matching credential, if any exists. * * `store`:: * * Store the credential, if applicable to the helper. * * `erase`:: * * Remove a matching credential, if any, from the helper's storage. * * The details of the credential will be provided on the helper's stdin * stream. The exact format is the same as the input/output format of the * `git credential` plumbing command (see the section `INPUT/OUTPUT * FORMAT` in Documentation/git-credential.txt for a detailed specification). * * For a `get` operation, the helper should produce a list of attributes * on stdout in the same format. A helper is free to produce a subset, or * even no values at all if it has nothing useful to provide. Any provided * attributes will overwrite those already known about by Git. If a helper * outputs a `quit` attribute with a value of `true` or `1`, no further * helpers will be consulted, nor will the user be prompted (if no * credential has been provided, the operation will then fail). * * For a `store` or `erase` operation, the helper's output is ignored. * If it fails to perform the requested operation, it may complain to * stderr to inform the user. If it does not support the requested * operation (e.g., a read-only store), it should silently ignore the * request. * * If a helper receives any other operation, it should silently ignore the * request. This leaves room for future operations to be added (older * helpers will just ignore the new requests). * */ /** * This struct represents a single username/password combination * along with any associated context. All string fields should be * heap-allocated (or NULL if they are not known or not applicable). * The meaning of the individual context fields is the same as * their counterparts in the helper protocol. * * This struct should always be initialized with `CREDENTIAL_INIT` or * `credential_init`. */ struct credential { /** * A `string_list` of helpers. Each string specifies an external * helper which will be run, in order, to either acquire or store * credentials. This list is filled-in by the API functions * according to the corresponding configuration variables before * consulting helpers, so there usually is no need for a caller to * modify the helpers field at all. */ struct string_list helpers; unsigned approved:1, configured:1, quit:1, use_http_path:1; char *username; char *password; char *protocol; char *host; char *path; }; #define CREDENTIAL_INIT { STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP } /* Initialize a credential structure, setting all fields to empty. */ void credential_init(struct credential *); /** * Free any resources associated with the credential structure, returning * it to a pristine initialized state. */ void credential_clear(struct credential *); /** * Instruct the credential subsystem to fill the username and * password fields of the passed credential struct by first * consulting helpers, then asking the user. After this function * returns, the username and password fields of the credential are * guaranteed to be non-NULL. If an error occurs, the function will * die(). */ void credential_fill(struct credential *); /** * Inform the credential subsystem that the provided credentials * were successfully used for authentication. This will cause the * credential subsystem to notify any helpers of the approval, so * that they may store the result to be used again. Any errors * from helpers are ignored. */ void credential_approve(struct credential *); /** * Inform the credential subsystem that the provided credentials * have been rejected. This will cause the credential subsystem to * notify any helpers of the rejection (which allows them, for * example, to purge the invalid credentials from storage). It * will also free() the username and password fields of the * credential and set them to NULL (readying the credential for * another call to `credential_fill`). Any errors from helpers are * ignored. */ void credential_reject(struct credential *); int credential_read(struct credential *, FILE *); void credential_write(const struct credential *, FILE *); /* Parse a URL into broken-down credential fields. */ void credential_from_url(struct credential *, const char *url); int credential_match(const struct credential *have, const struct credential *want); #endif /* CREDENTIAL_H */