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Søren Løvborg
auth: avoid setting AuthUser.is_authenticated for unauthenticated users

AuthUser.is_authenticated could be True for three reasons: because the
user "was" the default user, because the user was authenticated by session
cookie, or because the user was just authenticated by an auth module
(including the internal auth module). In the last case, a session
cookie is emitted (even when using container auth), so the last two
cases are closely related.

This commit do that unauthenticated users (the first case) only get the
is_default_user attribute set, and that the is_authenticated attribute only is
set for authenticated users (for the second and third case).

This complicates some expressions, but allows others to be simplified.
More importantly, it makes the code more explicit, and makes the
"is_authenticated" name mean what it says.

(This will temporarily make the is_authenticated session value look even more
weird than before.)
.. _locking:

==================
Repository locking
==================

Kallithea has a *repository locking* feature, disabled by default. When
enabled, every initial clone and every pull gives users (with write permission)
the exclusive right to do a push.

When repository locking is enabled, repositories get a ``locked`` flag.
The hg/git commands ``hg/git clone``, ``hg/git pull``,
and ``hg/git push`` influence this state:

- A ``clone`` or ``pull`` action locks the target repository
  if the user has write/admin permissions on this repository.

- Kallithea will remember the user who locked the repository so only this
  specific user can unlock the repo by performing a ``push``
  command.

- Every other command on a locked repository from this user and every command
  from any other user will result in an HTTP return code 423 (Locked).
  Additionally, the HTTP error will mention the user that locked the repository
  (e.g., “repository <repo> locked by user <user>”).

Each repository can be manually unlocked by an administrator from the
repository settings menu.