cgitrc.5: we mean a cgi response, not request

[ps-cgit] / filters / simple-authentication.lua

diff --git a/filters/simple-authentication.lua b/filters/simple-authentication.lua
index 92913024d1c5d0cda8ae18dbb72fae8840279147..cc86b7e3d76f491e8ea40ac30320c3dc3eca4876 100644 (file)
--- a/filters/simple-authentication.lua
+++ b/filters/simple-authentication.lua
@@ -12,17 +12,27 @@
 --
 --
 
 --
 --
 

+-- A list of password protected repositories along with the users who can access them.

 local protected_repos = {
        glouglou        = { laurent = true, jason = true },
        qt              = { jason = true, bob = true }
 }
 
 local protected_repos = {
        glouglou        = { laurent = true, jason = true },
        qt              = { jason = true, bob = true }
 }
 

+-- Please note that, in production, you'll want to replace this simple lookup
+-- table with either a table of salted and hashed passwords (using something
+-- smart like scrypt), or replace this table lookup with an external support,
+-- such as consulting your system's pam / shadow system, or an external
+-- database, or an external validating web service. For testing, or for
+-- extremely low-security usage, you may be able, however, to get away with
+-- compromising on hardcoding the passwords in cleartext, as we have done here.

 local users = {
        jason           = "secretpassword",
        laurent         = "s3cr3t",
        bob             = "ilikelua"
 }
 
 local users = {
        jason           = "secretpassword",
        laurent         = "s3cr3t",
        bob             = "ilikelua"
 }
 

+-- All cookies will be authenticated based on this secret. Make it something
+-- totally random and impossible to guess. It should be large.

 local secret = "BE SURE TO CUSTOMIZE THIS STRING TO SOMETHING BIG AND RANDOM"
 
 
 local secret = "BE SURE TO CUSTOMIZE THIS STRING TO SOMETHING BIG AND RANDOM"
 
 


@@ -156,7 +166,7 @@ function url_encode(str)
                return ""
        end
        str = string.gsub(str, "\n", "\r\n")
                return ""
        end
        str = string.gsub(str, "\n", "\r\n")

-       str = string.gsub(str, "([^%w ])", function (c) return string.format("%%%02X", string.byte(c)) end)
+       str = string.gsub(str, "([^%w ])", function(c) return string.format("%%%02X", string.byte(c)) end)

        str = string.gsub(str, " ", "+")
        return str
 end
        str = string.gsub(str, " ", "+")
        return str
 end