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Spent about 5 hours the other night in XMPP hell. At every turn Google Talk
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exhibited behavior that may meet the letter of the XMPP spec (or not), but
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varies between highly annoying and insane.
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By "insane", I mean this: If a presence message is directed from one client
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to another client belonging to that same user, randomly leaking that message
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out to other users who are subscribed is just a security hole waiting to
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happen.
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Anyway, I came out of that with a collection of hacks that worked, but I
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didn't like. I was using directed presence for buddy-to-buddy pairing, and
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an IQ message hack for client-to-client pairing.
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Today I got chat messages working instead, for both sorts of pairing. These
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chat messages have an empty body, which *should* prevent clients from
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displaying them, but they're sent directed to only git-annex clients
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anyway.
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And XMPP pairing 100% works now! Of course, it doesn't know how to git pull
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over XMPP yet, but everything else works.
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Here's a real `.git/config` generated by the assistant after XMPP pairing.
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[remote "joey"]
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url =
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fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/joey/*
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annex-uuid = 14f5e93e-1ed0-11e2-aa1c-f7a45e662d39
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annex-xmppaddress = joey@kitenet.net
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Fixed a typo that led to an infinite loop when adding a ssh git repo with the
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assistant. Only occurred when an absolute directory was specified, which
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is why I didn't notice it before.
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Security fix: Added a `GIT_ANNEX_SHELL_DIRECTORY` environment variable that
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locks down git-annex-shell to operating in only a single directory. The
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assistant sets that in ssh `authorized_keys` lines it creates. This
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prevents someone you pair with from being able to access any other git or
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git-annex repositories you may have.
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Next up, more craziness. But tomorrow is Nov 6th, so you in the US already
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knew that..
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