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//! Git authentication callbacks taken from upstream Cargo
//!
//! <https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/blob/5102de2/src/cargo/sources/git/utils.rs#L410>

use crate::error::{Error, ErrorKind};
use git2;
use std::env;

/// Prepare the authentication callbacks for cloning a git repository.
///
/// The main purpose of this function is to construct the "authentication
/// callback" which is used to clone a repository. This callback will attempt to
/// find the right authentication on the system (without user input) and will
/// guide libgit2 in doing so.
///
/// The callback is provided `allowed` types of credentials, and we try to do as
/// much as possible based on that:
///
/// * Prioritize SSH keys from the local ssh agent as they're likely the most
///   reliable. The username here is prioritized from the credential
///   callback, then from whatever is configured in git itself, and finally
///   we fall back to the generic user of `git`.
///
/// * If a username/password is allowed, then we fallback to git2-rs's
///   implementation of the credential helper. This is what is configured
///   with `credential.helper` in git, and is the interface for the macOS
///   keychain, for example.
///
/// * After the above two have failed, we just kinda grapple attempting to
///   return *something*.
///
/// If any form of authentication fails, libgit2 will repeatedly ask us for
/// credentials until we give it a reason to not do so. To ensure we don't
/// just sit here looping forever we keep track of authentications we've
/// attempted and we don't try the same ones again.
pub fn with_authentication<T, F>(url: &str, cfg: &git2::Config, mut f: F) -> Result<T, Error>
where
    F: FnMut(&mut git2::Credentials<'_>) -> Result<T, Error>,
{
    let mut cred_helper = git2::CredentialHelper::new(url);
    cred_helper.config(cfg);

    let mut ssh_username_requested = false;
    let mut cred_helper_bad = None;
    let mut ssh_agent_attempts = Vec::new();
    let mut any_attempts = false;
    let mut tried_sshkey = false;

    let mut res = f(&mut |url, username, allowed| {
        any_attempts = true;
        // libgit2's "USERNAME" authentication actually means that it's just
        // asking us for a username to keep going. This is currently only really
        // used for SSH authentication and isn't really an authentication type.
        // The logic currently looks like:
        //
        //      let user = ...;
        //      if (user.is_null())
        //          user = callback(USERNAME, null, ...);
        //
        //      callback(SSH_KEY, user, ...)
        //
        // So if we're being called here then we know that (a) we're using ssh
        // authentication and (b) no username was specified in the URL that
        // we're trying to clone. We need to guess an appropriate username here,
        // but that may involve a few attempts. Unfortunately we can't switch
        // usernames during one authentication session with libgit2, so to
        // handle this we bail out of this authentication session after setting
        // the flag `ssh_username_requested`, and then we handle this below.
        if allowed.contains(git2::CredentialType::USERNAME) {
            debug_assert!(username.is_none());
            ssh_username_requested = true;
            return Err(git2::Error::from_str("gonna try usernames later"));
        }

        // An "SSH_KEY" authentication indicates that we need some sort of SSH
        // authentication. This can currently either come from the ssh-agent
        // process or from a raw in-memory SSH key. Cargo only supports using
        // ssh-agent currently.
        //
        // If we get called with this then the only way that should be possible
        // is if a username is specified in the URL itself (e.g., `username` is
        // Some), hence the unwrap() here. We try custom usernames down below.
        if allowed.contains(git2::CredentialType::SSH_KEY) && !tried_sshkey {
            // If ssh-agent authentication fails, libgit2 will keep
            // calling this callback asking for other authentication
            // methods to try. Make sure we only try ssh-agent once,
            // to avoid looping forever.
            tried_sshkey = true;
            let username = username.unwrap();
            debug_assert!(!ssh_username_requested);
            ssh_agent_attempts.push(username.to_string());
            return git2::Cred::ssh_key_from_agent(username);
        }

        // Sometimes libgit2 will ask for a username/password in plaintext. This
        // is where Cargo would have an interactive prompt if we supported it,
        // but we currently don't! Right now the only way we support fetching a
        // plaintext password is through the `credential.helper` support, so
        // fetch that here.
        //
        // If ssh-agent authentication fails, libgit2 will keep calling this
        // callback asking for other authentication methods to try. Check
        // cred_helper_bad to make sure we only try the git credential helper
        // once, to avoid looping forever.
        if allowed.contains(git2::CredentialType::USER_PASS_PLAINTEXT) && cred_helper_bad.is_none()
        {
            let r = git2::Cred::credential_helper(cfg, url, username);
            cred_helper_bad = Some(r.is_err());
            return r;
        }

        // I'm... not sure what the DEFAULT kind of authentication is, but seems
        // easy to support?
        if allowed.contains(git2::CredentialType::DEFAULT) {
            return git2::Cred::default();
        }

        // Whelp, we tried our best
        Err(git2::Error::from_str("no authentication available"))
    });

    // Ok, so if it looks like we're going to be doing ssh authentication, we
    // want to try a few different usernames as one wasn't specified in the URL
    // for us to use. In order, we'll try:
    //
    // * A credential helper's username for this URL, if available.
    // * This account's username.
    // * "git"
    //
    // We have to restart the authentication session each time (due to
    // constraints in libssh2 I guess? maybe this is inherent to ssh?), so we
    // call our callback, `f`, in a loop here.
    if ssh_username_requested {
        debug_assert!(res.is_err());
        let mut attempts = Vec::new();
        attempts.push("git".to_string());
        if let Ok(s) = env::var("USER").or_else(|_| env::var("USERNAME")) {
            attempts.push(s);
        }
        if let Some(ref s) = cred_helper.username {
            attempts.push(s.clone());
        }

        while let Some(s) = attempts.pop() {
            // We should get `USERNAME` first, where we just return our attempt,
            // and then after that we should get `SSH_KEY`. If the first attempt
            // fails we'll get called again, but we don't have another option so
            // we bail out.
            let mut attempts = 0;
            res = f(&mut |_url, username, allowed| {
                if allowed.contains(git2::CredentialType::USERNAME) {
                    return git2::Cred::username(&s);
                }
                if allowed.contains(git2::CredentialType::SSH_KEY) {
                    debug_assert_eq!(Some(&s[..]), username);
                    attempts += 1;
                    if attempts == 1 {
                        ssh_agent_attempts.push(s.to_string());
                        return git2::Cred::ssh_key_from_agent(&s);
                    }
                }
                Err(git2::Error::from_str("no authentication available"))
            });

            // If we made two attempts then that means:
            //
            // 1. A username was requested, we returned `s`.
            // 2. An ssh key was requested, we returned to look up `s` in the
            //    ssh agent.
            // 3. For whatever reason that lookup failed, so we were asked again
            //    for another mode of authentication.
            //
            // Essentially, if `attempts == 2` then in theory the only error was
            // that this username failed to authenticate (e.g., no other network
            // errors happened). Otherwise something else is funny so we bail
            // out.
            if attempts != 2 {
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    if res.is_ok() || !any_attempts {
        return res.map_err(From::from);
    }

    // In the case of an authentication failure (where we tried something) then
    // we try to give a more helpful error message about precisely what we
    // tried.
    let res = res.map_err(|_| {
        let mut msg = "failed to authenticate when downloading repository".to_string();
        if !ssh_agent_attempts.is_empty() {
            let names = ssh_agent_attempts
                .iter()
                .map(|s| format!("`{}`", s))
                .collect::<Vec<_>>()
                .join(", ");
            msg.push_str(&format!(
                "\nattempted ssh-agent authentication, but \
                 none of the usernames {} succeeded",
                names
            ));
        }
        if let Some(failed_cred_helper) = cred_helper_bad {
            if failed_cred_helper {
                msg.push_str(
                    "\nattempted to find username/password via \
                     git's `credential.helper` support, but failed",
                );
            } else {
                msg.push_str(
                    "\nattempted to find username/password via \
                     `credential.helper`, but maybe the found \
                     credentials were incorrect",
                );
            }
        }
        format_err!(ErrorKind::Repo, "{}", msg)
    })?;

    Ok(res)
}