credential: new attribute password_expiry_utc
Some passwords have an expiry date known at generation. This may be years away for a personal access token or hours for an OAuth access token. When multiple credential helpers are configured, `credential fill` tries each helper in turn until it has a username and password, returning early. If Git authentication succeeds, `credential approve` stores the successful credential in all helpers. If authentication fails, `credential reject` erases matching credentials in all helpers. Helpers implement corresponding operations: get, store, erase. The credential protocol has no expiry attribute, so helpers cannot store expiry information. Even if a helper returned an improvised expiry attribute, git credential discards unrecognised attributes between operations and between helpers. This is a particular issue when a storage helper and a credential-generating helper are configured together: [credential] helper = storage # eg. cache or osxkeychain helper = generate # eg. oauth `credential approve` stores the generated credential in both helpers without expiry information. Later `credential fill` may return an expired credential from storage. There is no workaround, no matter how clever the second helper. The user sees authentication fail (a retry will succeed). Introduce a password expiry attribute. In `credential fill`, ignore expired passwords and continue to query subsequent helpers. In the example above, `credential fill` ignores the expired password and a fresh credential is generated. If authentication succeeds, `credential approve` replaces the expired password in storage. If authentication fails, the expired credential is erased by `credential reject`. It is unnecessary but harmless for storage helpers to self prune expired credentials. Add support for the new attribute to credential-cache. Eventually, I hope to see support in other popular storage helpers. Example usage in a credential-generating helper https://github.com/hickford/git-credential-oauth/pull/16 Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ static void serve_one_client(FILE *in, FILE *out)
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if (e) {
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fprintf(out, "username=%s\n", e->item.username);
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fprintf(out, "password=%s\n", e->item.password);
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if (e->item.password_expiry_utc != TIME_MAX)
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fprintf(out, "password_expiry_utc=%"PRItime"\n",
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e->item.password_expiry_utc);
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}
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}
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else if (!strcmp(action.buf, "exit")) {
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