[PATCHv2 1/3] Add config option user-envvar

[Valentin Haenel]

* Ben Boeckel <mathstuf at gmail.com> [2012-10-28]:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 08:29:16 GMT, Valentin Haenel 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.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel at gmx.de>
> > ---
> >  cgit.c       |   10 ++++++++++
> >  cgit.h       |    2 ++
> >  cgitrc.5.txt |    6 ++++++
> >  3 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/cgit.c b/cgit.c
> > index a97ed69653..92e35ae958 100644
> > --- a/cgit.c
> > +++ b/cgit.c
> > @@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ void config_cb(const char *name, const char *value)
> >  		repo_config(ctx.repo, name + 5, value);
> >  	else if (!strcmp(name, "readme"))
> >  		ctx.cfg.readme = xstrdup(value);
> > +	else if (!strcmp(name, "user-envvar"))
> > +		ctx.cfg.user_envvar = xstrdup(value);
> >  	else if (!strcmp(name, "root-title"))
> >  		ctx.cfg.root_title = xstrdup(value);
> >  	else if (!strcmp(name, "root-desc"))
> > @@ -379,6 +381,7 @@ static void prepare_context(struct cgit_context *ctx)
> >  	ctx->cfg.summary_tags = 10;
> >  	ctx->cfg.max_atom_items = 10;
> >  	ctx->cfg.ssdiff = 0;
> > +	ctx->cfg.user_envvar = "REMOTE_USER";
> 
> Use xstrdupn here. It can't be free'd if it's static like this.

Check.

> >  	ctx->env.cgit_config = xstrdupn(getenv("CGIT_CONFIG"));
> >  	ctx->env.http_host = xstrdupn(getenv("HTTP_HOST"));
> >  	ctx->env.https = xstrdupn(getenv("HTTPS"));
> > @@ -823,6 +826,13 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
> >  	ctx.repo = NULL;
> >  	http_parse_querystring(ctx.qry.raw, querystring_cb);
> >  
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Get the username of an authenticated user. It will get
> > +	 * from the environment variable defined by the user-header
> > +	 * option (defaults to REMOTE_USER)
> > +	 */
> > +	ctx.env.remote_user = xstrdupn(getenv(ctx.cfg.user_envvar));
> > +
> >  	/* If virtual-root isn't specified in cgitrc, lets pretend
> >  	 * that virtual-root equals SCRIPT_NAME, minus any possibly
> >  	 * trailing slashes.
> > diff --git a/cgit.h b/cgit.h
> > index 7a99135710..016baa8e7d 100644
> > --- a/cgit.h
> > +++ b/cgit.h
> > @@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ struct cgit_query {
> >  
> >  struct cgit_config {
> >  	char *agefile;
> > +	char *user_envvar;
> 
> It should be free'd where the rest of these are free'd. I don't see that
> here.
> 
> >  	char *cache_root;
> >  	char *clone_prefix;
> >  	char *clone_url;
> > @@ -263,6 +264,7 @@ struct cgit_environment {
> >  	char *script_name;
> >  	char *server_name;
> >  	char *server_port;
> > +	char *remote_user;
> 
> Same here.

Forgive me if I am mistaken, but I don't see any of those free'd
anywhere.

V-