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authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>2014-01-17 14:34:44 +0000
committerJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>2014-01-17 14:34:44 +0000
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auth: document tweakables in lua script
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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--
--
+-- A list of password protected repositories along with the users who can access them.
local protected_repos = {
glouglou = { laurent = true, jason = true },
qt = { jason = true, bob = true }
}
+-- Please note that, in production, you'll want to replace this simple lookup
+-- table with either a table of salted and hashed passwords (using something
+-- smart like scrypt), or replace this table lookup with an external support,
+-- such as consulting your system's pam / shadow system, or an external
+-- database, or an external validating web service. For testing, or for
+-- extremely low-security usage, you may be able, however, to get away with
+-- compromising on hardcoding the passwords in cleartext, as we have done here.
local users = {
jason = "secretpassword",
laurent = "s3cr3t",
bob = "ilikelua"
}
+-- All cookies will be authenticated based on this secret. Make it something
+-- totally random and impossible to guess. It should be large.
local secret = "BE SURE TO CUSTOMIZE THIS STRING TO SOMETHING BIG AND RANDOM"