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author | Amitai Schlair <schmonz@magnetic-babysitter.(none)> | 2009-08-30 16:34:32 -0400 |
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committer | Amitai Schlair <schmonz@magnetic-babysitter.(none)> | 2009-08-30 16:34:32 -0400 |
commit | fe350e8b895be69471fad094fcdcf0b4c7d3beb3 (patch) | |
tree | 5d48b57f583fedc2a9b765d3a9ea7b0c6c1d5891 /doc | |
parent | 1af7d7d8429b6e73493a5f8ba877c6cfb888cfe1 (diff) | |
parent | 7021fc36466d80ca0c4105b82239d3ba008ade80 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of git://github.com/joeyh/ikiwiki
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/git.mdwn | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/news/version_3.1415926.mdwn | 53 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/contrib/cvs/discussion.mdwn | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth.mdwn | 204 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/po.mdwn | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/security.mdwn | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech/discussion.mdwn | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/Restrict_page_viewing.mdwn | 3 |
9 files changed, 99 insertions, 207 deletions
diff --git a/doc/git.mdwn b/doc/git.mdwn index f6971e84b..008f109df 100644 --- a/doc/git.mdwn +++ b/doc/git.mdwn @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Some of the branches included in the main repository include: changes. * `debian-stable` is used for updates to the old version included in Debian's stable release, and `debian-testing` is used for updates to - Debian's testing release. + Debian's testing release. (These and similar branches will be rebased.) * `ignore` gets various branches merged to it that Joey wishes to ignore when looking at everyone's unmerged changes. * `pristine-tar` contains deltas that diff --git a/doc/news/version_3.1415926.mdwn b/doc/news/version_3.1415926.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c914c83cd --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/news/version_3.1415926.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +News for ikiwiki 3.1415926: + + In order to fix a performance bug, all wikis need to be rebuilt on + upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in + /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the + Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force + a rebuild. + +ikiwiki 3.1415926 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]] +[[!toggleable text=""" + * [ Joey Hess ] + * po: Detect if nowrapi18n can't be passed to po4a, and warn about + the old version, but continue. Closes: #[541205](http://bugs.debian.org/541205) + * inline: Avoid use of my $\_ as it fails with older perls. + Closes: #[541215](http://bugs.debian.org/541215) + * Add discussionpage configuration setting. + * Several optimisations, including speedups to orphans and brokenlinks + calculation. + * meta, img: Fix bugs in dependency code. (smcv) + * Allow building ikiwiki on systems w/o po4a -- + building of the translated underlays will be skipped in this case. + * Add basic styling of po plugin's languages list. + * inline: Display an error if feedpages is specified and fails to match + due to a problem such as created\_before being told to check against + a page that does not exist. + * Remove deprecated ikiwiki/blog and ikiwiki/preprocessordirective + pages from the basewiki. + * Updated French program translation from Philippe Batailler. + Closes: #[542036](http://bugs.debian.org/542036) + * po: Fixed to run rcs\_add ralative to srcdir. + * Italian program translation from Luca Bruno. + * Fix example blog's tags/life to not have a broken PageSpec. + Closes: #[543510](http://bugs.debian.org/543510) + * Optimize the dependencies list. This also fixes a bug + that could cause repeated refreshes of the wiki to grow + increasingly larger dependency lists, and get increasingly + slower. (smcv) + * Rebuild wikis on upgrade to this version to fix bloat caused + by the dependency bug. + * Further optimisation of dependency handling by adding a special + case for simple page dependencies. (smcv) + * htmltidy: Return an error message if tidy fails. Closes: #[543722](http://bugs.debian.org/543722) + * po: Fix name of translated toplevel index page. (intrigeri) + * po: Fix display of links from a translated page to itself (ntrigeri) + * Add Czech basewiki translation from Miroslav Kure. + * po: fix interdiction to create pages of type po (intrigeri) + * po: po: favor the type of linking page's masterpage on page creation + (intrigeri) + * img: Don't generate new verison of image if it is scaled to be + larger in either dimension. + * [ Josh Triplett ] + * teximg: Replace the insufficient blacklist with the built-in security + mechanisms of TeX."""]]
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn index 6b600eef7..1c43fb272 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn @@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ This plugin allows ikiwiki to use [[!wikipedia desc="CVS" Concurrent Versions System]] as an [[rcs]]. ### Usage -7. Install [cvsps](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/), [[!cpan IPC::Cmd]], [[!cpan String::ShellQuote]], and [cvsweb](http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html) or the like. +7. Install [cvsps](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/), [[!cpan IPC::Cmd]], +[[!cpan String::ShellQuote]], [[!cpan File::ReadBackwards]], and +[cvsweb](http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html) or the like. 7. Adjust CVS-related parameters in your setup file. Consider creating `$HOME/.cvsrc` if you don't have one already; the plugin doesn't need it, but you yourself might. Here's a good general-purpose one: @@ -18,7 +20,11 @@ Consider creating `$HOME/.cvsrc` if you don't have one already; the plugin doesn ### Implementation details * `cvs.pm` started life as a copy of [[3.14159|news/version_3.14159]]'s `svn.pm`. -* `IkiWiki.pm:wiki_file_prune_regexps` avoids copying CVS metadata into `$DESTDIR`. +* `IkiWiki.pm:wiki_file_prune_regexps` avoids copying CVS metadata +into `$DESTDIR`. +* `IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm` avoids calling ikiwiki from post-commit if it's a +directory being `cvs add`ed (this check is only compiled into the wrapper +iff the configured VCS is "cvs"). * [[ikiwiki-makerepo]]: * creates a repository, * imports `$SRCDIR` into top-level module `ikiwiki` (vendor tag IKIWIKI, release tag PRE_CVS), @@ -27,7 +33,5 @@ Consider creating `$HOME/.cvsrc` if you don't have one already; the plugin doesn ### To do * Add automated tests. (Blindly adding svn-like tests to `t/file_pruned.t` doesn't do the trick.) -* If the argument to `cvs add` smells like a binary file, `cvs add -kb` it (for [[plugins/attachment]] support). -* Don't slurp the entire `cvsps` output into memory (!). * Instead of resource-intensively scraping changesets with `cvsps`, have `ikiwiki-makerepo` set up NetBSD-like `log_accum` and `commit_prep` scripts that coalesce and keep records of commits. `cvsps` can be used as a fallback for repositories without such records. * Perhaps prevent web edits from attempting to create `.../CVS/foo.mdwn` (and `.../cvs/foo.mdwn` on case-insensitive filesystems); thanks to the CVS metadata directory, the attempt will fail anyway (and much more confusingly) if we don't. diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs/discussion.mdwn index e1fa6e428..e142452d0 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs/discussion.mdwn @@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ the "cvs add <directory>" call and avoid doing anything in that case? >>>>>> I don't see how there could possibly be a difference between >>>>>> ikiwiki's C wrapper and your shell wrapper wrapper here. --[[Joey]] +>>>>>>> I was comparing strings overly precisely. Fixed on my branch. +>>>>>>> I've also knocked off the two most pressing to-do items. I +>>>>>>> think the plugin's ready for prime time. --[[schmonz]] + > Thing 2 I'm less sure of. (I'd like to see the web UI return > immediately on save anyway, to a temporary "rebuilding, please wait > if you feel like knowing when it's done" page, but this problem diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth.mdwn index 6108ebfae..137195139 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth.mdwn @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ [[!template id=plugin name=unixauth core=0 author="[[schmonz]]"]] [[!tag type/auth]] +[[!template id=gitbranch branch=schmonz author="[[schmonz]]"]] + This plugin authenticates users against the Unix user database. It presents a similar UI to [[plugins/passwordauth]], but simpler, as there's no need to be able to register or change one's password. To authenticate, either [checkpassword](http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd.html) or [pwauth](http://www.unixpapa.com/pwauth/) must be installed and configured. `checkpassword` is strongly preferred. If your web server runs as an unprivileged user -- as it darn well should! -- then `checkpassword` needs to be setuid root. (Or your ikiwiki CGI wrapper, I guess, but don't do that.) Other checkpassword implementations are available, notably [checkpassword-pam](http://checkpasswd-pam.sourceforge.net/). @@ -17,205 +19,3 @@ __Security__: [As with passwordauth](/security/#index14h2), be wary of sending u `unixauth` needs the `HTTPS` environment variable, available in ikiwiki 2.67 or later (fixed in #[502047](http://bugs.debian.org/502047)), without which it fails closed. The plugin has not been tested with newer versions of ikiwiki. [[schmonz]] hopes to have time to polish this plugin soon. - -[[!toggle id="code" text="unixauth.pm"]] - -[[!toggleable id="code" text=""" - - #!/usr/bin/perl - # Ikiwiki unixauth authentication. - package IkiWiki::Plugin::unixauth; - - use warnings; - use strict; - use IkiWiki 2.00; - - sub import { - hook(type => "getsetup", id => "unixauth", call => \&getsetup); - hook(type => "formbuilder_setup", id => "unixauth", - call => \&formbuilder_setup); - hook(type => "formbuilder", id => "unixauth", - call => \&formbuilder); - hook(type => "sessioncgi", id => "unixauth", call => \&sessioncgi); - } - - sub getsetup () { - return - unixauth_type => { - type => "string", - example => "checkpassword", - description => "type of authenticator; can be 'checkpassword' or 'pwauth'", - safe => 0, - rebuild => 1, - }, - unixauth_command => { - type => "string", - example => "/path/to/checkpassword", - description => "full path and any arguments", - safe => 0, - rebuild => 1, - }, - unixauth_requiressl => { - type => "boolean", - example => "1", - description => "require SSL? strongly recommended", - safe => 0, - rebuild => 1, - }, - plugin => { - description => "Unix user authentication", - safe => 0, - rebuild => 1, - }, - } - - # Checks if a string matches a user's password, and returns true or false. - sub checkpassword ($$;$) { - my $user=shift; - my $password=shift; - my $field=shift || "password"; - - # It's very important that the user not be allowed to log in with - # an empty password! - if (! length $password) { - return 0; - } - - my $ret=0; - if (! exists $config{unixauth_type}) { - # admin needs to carefully think over his configuration - return 0; - } - elsif ($config{unixauth_type} eq "checkpassword") { - open UNIXAUTH, "|$config{unixauth_command} true 3<&0" or die("Could not run $config{unixauth_type}"); - print UNIXAUTH "$user\0$password\0Y123456\0"; - close UNIXAUTH; - $ret=!($?>>8); - } - elsif ($config{unixauth_type} eq "pwauth") { - open UNIXAUTH, "|$config{unixauth_command}" or die("Could not run $config{unixauth_type}"); - print UNIXAUTH "$user\n$password\n"; - close UNIXAUTH; - $ret=!($?>>8); - } - else { - # no such authentication type - return 0; - } - - if ($ret) { - my $userinfo=IkiWiki::userinfo_retrieve(); - if (! length $user || ! defined $userinfo || - ! exists $userinfo->{$user} || ! ref $userinfo->{$user}) { - IkiWiki::userinfo_setall($user, { - 'email' => '', - 'regdate' => time, - }); - } - } - - return $ret; - } - - sub formbuilder_setup (@) { - my %params=@_; - - my $form=$params{form}; - my $session=$params{session}; - my $cgi=$params{cgi}; - - # if not under SSL, die before even showing a login form, - # unless the admin explicitly says it's fine - if (! exists $config{unixauth_requiressl}) { - $config{unixauth_requiressl} = 1; - } - if ($config{unixauth_requiressl}) { - if ((! $config{sslcookie}) || (! exists $ENV{'HTTPS'})) { - die("SSL required to login. Contact your administrator.<br>"); - } - } - - if ($form->title eq "signin") { - $form->field(name => "name", required => 0); - $form->field(name => "password", type => "password", required => 0); - - if ($form->submitted) { - my $submittype=$form->submitted; - # Set required fields based on how form was submitted. - my %required=( - "Login" => [qw(name password)], - ); - foreach my $opt (@{$required{$submittype}}) { - $form->field(name => $opt, required => 1); - } - - # Validate password against name for Login. - if ($submittype eq "Login") { - $form->field( - name => "password", - validate => sub { - checkpassword($form->field("name"), shift); - }, - ); - } - - # XXX is this reachable? looks like no - elsif ($submittype eq "Login") { - $form->field( - name => "name", - validate => sub { - my $name=shift; - length $name && - IkiWiki::userinfo_get($name, "regdate"); - }, - ); - } - } - else { - # First time settings. - $form->field(name => "name"); - if ($session->param("name")) { - $form->field(name => "name", value => $session->param("name")); - } - } - } - elsif ($form->title eq "preferences") { - $form->field(name => "name", disabled => 1, - value => $session->param("name"), force => 1, - fieldset => "login"); - $form->field(name => "password", disabled => 1, type => "password", - fieldset => "login"), - } - } - - sub formbuilder (@) { - my %params=@_; - - my $form=$params{form}; - my $session=$params{session}; - my $cgi=$params{cgi}; - my $buttons=$params{buttons}; - - if ($form->title eq "signin") { - if ($form->submitted && $form->validate) { - if ($form->submitted eq 'Login') { - $session->param("name", $form->field("name")); - IkiWiki::cgi_postsignin($cgi, $session); - } - } - } - elsif ($form->title eq "preferences") { - if ($form->submitted eq "Save Preferences" && $form->validate) { - my $user_name=$form->field('name'); - } - } - } - - sub sessioncgi ($$) { - my $q=shift; - my $session=shift; - } - - 1 - -"""]] diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn index 04420c115..38b6b12cd 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn @@ -323,6 +323,22 @@ when building a non-english page? Then the directives would get translated. t/po is currently failing tests 57 and 59 (and I would like to release soon..) --[[Joey]] +> They are failing because of commit cdc3576c8d1e (po: do not inject +> custom bestlink function when `po_link_to` eq `default`). The test +> suite changes `$config{po_link_to}`, but the `checkconfig` hook is +> not re-run. I could manually run it when needed in the test-suite, +> but this would lead to this function being injected several times, +> and then `$origsubs{'bestlink'}` to be sometimes set to a wrong +> value, which would break other parts of the test-suite. The best +> solution I can think of (apart of reverting this commit or disabling +> these two tests) is to split the test-suite into 3 parts, depending +> on the `$config{po_link_to}` setting, either in 3 different `.t` +> files, or inside the existing one and completely reset the IkiWiki +> environment at the start of these parts... which I did not manage to +> achieve in the last 2 hours :/ --[[intrigeri]] + +>> I've reverted it. --[[Joey]] + Documentation ------------- diff --git a/doc/security.mdwn b/doc/security.mdwn index 939d65d01..200ae29e2 100644 --- a/doc/security.mdwn +++ b/doc/security.mdwn @@ -417,3 +417,13 @@ attack. intrigeri discovered this problem on 12 Nov 2008 and a patch put in place later that day, in version 2.70. The fix was backported to testing as version 2.53.3, and to stable as version 1.33.7. + +## Insufficient blacklisting in teximg plugin + +Josh Triplett discovered on 28 Aug 2009 that the teximg plugin's +blacklisting of insecure TeX commands was insufficient; it could be +bypassed and used to read arbitrary files. This was fixed by +enabling TeX configuration options that disallow unsafe TeX commands. +The fix was released on 30 Aug 2009 in version 3.1415926, and was +backported to stable in version 2.53.4. If you use the teximg plugin, +I recommend upgrading. diff --git a/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech/discussion.mdwn b/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech/discussion.mdwn index 3d4dc732d..a003760b9 100644 --- a/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech/discussion.mdwn @@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 19) line 2. </pre> perl is 5.8.9 + +> This is fixed in 3.1415926. --[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/todo/Restrict_page_viewing.mdwn b/doc/todo/Restrict_page_viewing.mdwn index 089d27fff..9c1889d63 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Restrict_page_viewing.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Restrict_page_viewing.mdwn @@ -34,3 +34,6 @@ much more maintainable htaccess file. >>> web servers, for systems with web servers you don't have access to, and >>> doubtless for other purposes. Such a plugin would add quite a bit of flexibility, >>> and in that sense (IMO, of course) it'd be in the spirit of ikiwiki. --[[schmonz]] + +>>>> Yes, I think this could probably be used in combination with ikiwiki's +>>>> httpauth and openid plugins. --[[Joey]] |