Add control over use of unsafe remotes#1721
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Add a new setting that allows users to express an explicit consent to using unsafe remote URLs (such as those using HTTP rather than HTTPS).
Note that we only emit a warning for the generic host provider rather than failing-fast like the other providers do. This is because we never blocked HTTP remotes previously in the generic provider (which is often used for localhost, custom hosts, etc) and don't want to break any existing scenarios or scripts. The new option can be used to dismiss this warning message.
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| public const string GcmAutoDetect = "https://aka.ms/gcm/autodetect"; | ||
| public const string GcmDefaultAccount = "https://aka.ms/gcm/defaultaccount"; | ||
| public const string GcmMultipleUsers = "https://aka.ms/gcm/multipleusers"; | ||
| public const string GcmUnsafeRemotes = "https://aka.ms/gcm/unsaferemotes"; |
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This PR looks good to me!
There is a new error about a broken link:
✗ [404] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/secret-service/ | Failed: Network error: Not Found
This link is in GCM's documentation apparently 3 times. I think that this should be updated to https://specifications.freedesktop.org/secret-service-spec/.
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I have opened #1722 to fix this; This successful doc linting run suggests that I've managed 😊 |
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**Changes:** - Documentation updates & fixes - #1713 - #1722 - #1884 - #2123 - #2154 - Fix Generic provider refresh token refresh logic (#1838) - Version bump to 2.7.0 (#2177) - CODEOWNERS (#2053) - Allow unsafe remotes via config (#1721) - Drop no longer needed GitLab OAuth params (#1538) - No-op credential storage option (#1740) - Fixes to CI & build - #1746 - #1747 - #1752 - #2104 - #2217 - Use Azure Pipelines for official builds - #2054 - #2176 - Fix TRACE2 logging (#1909) - Linux ARM and ARM64 support - #1633 - #2232 - Windows ARM64 and x64 support (#2230) - Linux install-from-source bug fixes - #1757 - #2049 - #2052 - Support Oracle Linux vis install-from-source (#2212) - macOS enterprise defaults (#1811) - Actions dependency updates - #1725 - #1751 - #1750 - #1760 - #1799 - #2022 - #2048 - #1989 - #2011 - #2029 - #2051 - #2050 - #2070 - #2080 - #2089 - #2088 - #2092 - #2189 - #2193
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Today, all the custom host providers (Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab) block the use of HTTP (unencrypted) remote URLs and error out. Only the generic host provider permits HTTP remotes.
From #1694, we learn that a common use case for self/corporate hosted Git servers is to use HTTP remotes. Even if this is not recommended, GCM should not outright block these.
Instead, we now add an option,
GCM_ALLOW_UNSAFE_REMOTESorcredential.allowUnsafeRemotes, for the user to explicitly set to allow the use of these unsafe remotes.For the generic host provider we only print a warning when using HTTP remotes to reduce the churn for existing users who rely on GCM for HTTP remotes.