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error, don't warn about insecure creds

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A one-time warning was not good enough. A hard error will force the user to
notice the problem.

Perhaps worth noting that git-annex enableremote already failed with an
error, and nobody reported a bug. Suggests that not many people have used
the insecure configuration, or if they did, they went to the bother to
embedcreds, but never re-enabled the special remote.
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Joey Hess 2014-09-18 19:03:15 -04:00
parent 23f60da002
commit 15c502588e
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@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ getRemoteCredPair c storage = maybe fromcache (return . Just) =<< fromenv
-- Not a problem for shared cipher.
case storablecipher of
SharedCipher {} -> showLongNote "gpg error above was caused by an old git-annex bug in credentials storage. Working around it.."
_ -> warning "*** Insecure credentials storage detected for this remote! See https://git-annex.branchable.com/upgrades/insecure_embedded_creds/"
_ -> error "*** Insecure credentials storage detected for this remote! See https://git-annex.branchable.com/upgrades/insecure_embedded_creds/"
fromcreds $ fromB64 enccreds
fromcreds creds = case decodeCredPair creds of
Just credpair -> do

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doc/upgrades/insecure_embedded_creds.mdwn
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@ -6,12 +6,9 @@ in (effectively) plaintext, not encrypted as they were supposed to be.
That means that anyone who gets a copy of the git repository can extract the
AWS credentials from it. Which would be bad..
Fixed versions of git-annex will detect this problem when enabling such a
remote, and print a warning message (including a pointer to this web page).
This message will only be printed one time, since git-annex will
change the embedded credentials to be encrypted properly.
However, this leaves the non-encrypted version still in the git history.
A remote with this problem cannot be enabled using `git annex
enableremote`. Old versions of git-annex will fail with a gpg error;
the current version will fail with a pointer to this web page.
If your repository has this problem, chose from one of these approaches
to deal with it:
@ -25,11 +22,21 @@ to deal with it:
`AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` and `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` environment variables,
and running `git annex enableremote $remotename embedcreds=yes`
2. Remove the history of the git-annex branch of the repository.
You can use `git annex forget` to do that; note that it will
remove other historical data too. Keep in mind that this will not
necessarily delete data from clones you do not control.
2. Fix the problem and then remove the history of the git-annex branch
of the repository.
3. If you're the only one who has access to the repository, you could decide
to leave it as-is. It's no more insecure than if you had used
encryption=shared in the first place when setting it up.
Make sure you have a fixed version of git-annex, and force git-annex
to rewrite the embedded creds, with encryption this time, by setting
by setting the `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` and `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`
environment variables, and running `git annex enableremote $remotename embedcreds=yes`
Then, to get rid of old versions of the git-annex branch that still
contain the creds in cleartext, you can use `git annex forget`;
note that it will remove other historical data too.
Keep in mind that this will not necessarily delete data from clones
you do not control.
3. If you're sure that you're the only one who has access to the repository,
you could decide to leave it as-is. It's no more insecure than if you
had used encryption=shared in the first place when setting it up.