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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-daemon.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | daemon.c | 25 |
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt index 69a1e4af9e..31b28fc29f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt @@ -161,6 +161,16 @@ the facility of inet daemon to achieve the same before spawning repository configuration. By default, all the services are overridable. +--informative-errors:: +--no-informative-errors:: + When informative errors are turned on, git-daemon will report + more verbose errors to the client, differentiating conditions + like "no such repository" from "repository not exported". This + is more convenient for clients, but may leak information about + the existence of unexported repositories. When informative + errors are not enabled, all errors report "access denied" to the + client. The default is --no-informative-errors. + <directory>:: A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless --strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ static int log_syslog; static int verbose; static int reuseaddr; +static int informative_errors; static const char daemon_usage[] = "git daemon [--verbose] [--syslog] [--export-all]\n" @@ -247,6 +248,14 @@ static int git_daemon_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) return 0; } +static int daemon_error(const char *dir, const char *msg) +{ + if (!informative_errors) + msg = "access denied or repository not exported"; + packet_write(1, "ERR %s: %s", msg, dir); + return -1; +} + static int run_service(char *dir, struct daemon_service *service) { const char *path; @@ -257,11 +266,11 @@ static int run_service(char *dir, struct daemon_service *service) if (!enabled && !service->overridable) { logerror("'%s': service not enabled.", service->name); errno = EACCES; - return -1; + return daemon_error(dir, "service not enabled"); } if (!(path = path_ok(dir))) - return -1; + return daemon_error(dir, "no such repository"); /* * Security on the cheap. @@ -277,7 +286,7 @@ static int run_service(char *dir, struct daemon_service *service) if (!export_all_trees && access("git-daemon-export-ok", F_OK)) { logerror("'%s': repository not exported.", path); errno = EACCES; - return -1; + return daemon_error(dir, "repository not exported"); } if (service->overridable) { @@ -291,7 +300,7 @@ static int run_service(char *dir, struct daemon_service *service) logerror("'%s': service not enabled for '%s'", service->name, path); errno = EACCES; - return -1; + return daemon_error(dir, "service not enabled"); } /* @@ -1167,6 +1176,14 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) make_service_overridable(arg + 18, 0); continue; } + if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--informative-errors")) { + informative_errors = 1; + continue; + } + if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--no-informative-errors")) { + informative_errors = 0; + continue; + } if (!strcmp(arg, "--")) { ok_paths = &argv[i+1]; break; |