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Mads Kiilerich

repos: introduce low level slug check of repo and group names

The high level web forms already slug-ify repo and repo group names. It might
thus not create the exact repo that was created, but the name will be "safe".

For API, we would rather have it fail than not doing exactly what was requested.

Thus, always verify at low level that the provided name wouldn't be modified by
slugification. This makes sure the API provide allow the same actual names as
the web UI.

This will only influence creation and renaming of repositories and repo groups.
Existing repositories will continue working as before.

This is a slight API change, but it makes the system more stable and can
prevent some security issues - especially XSS attacks.

This issue was found and reported by
Kacper Szurek
https://security.szurek.pl/

.. _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.