Configuring Authentication

Caution

This section is only for people who already have push access to Mozilla’s Mercurial repository.

If you don’t have push access, or if you aren’t sure what that is, you can skip this section.

SSH Configuration

Pushing to Mercurial is performed via SSH. You will need to configure your SSH client to talk appropriate settings to Mozilla’s Mercurial servers.

Typically, the only setting that needs configured is your username. In your SSH config (likely ~/.ssh/config), add the following:

Host hg.mozilla.org
  User me@mozilla.com

Tip

Be sure to replace me@mozilla.com with your lowercase Mozilla-registered LDAP account that is configured for SSH access to Mercurial. The default ssh key is id_rsa.

You can specify an alternate key path in the configuration file, as shown in the folowing example:

Host hg.mozilla.org
 User me@mozilla.com
 IdentityFile /path/to/my/key

You can generate a key using ssh-keygen. It will print a message with the location of the generated key. You can then go to login.mozilla.com, authenticate and navigate to the “SSH Keys” section. You might need to authenticate a second time, and when that’s done you should see in the page an “Upload SSH Public Key” button. Clicking on it will show a text area in which you need to copy the whole content of the file ssh-keygen generated.

You can then run ssh -vvv hg.mozilla.org to troubleshoot any key or connection related issues.

The first time you connect, you will be asked to verify the host SSH key.

The fingerprints of the host keys for hg.mozilla.org are as follows:

ED25519 (server preferred key)
256 SHA256:7MBAdqLe8+aSYkv+5/2LUUxd+WdgYcVSV+ZQVEKA7jA hg.mozilla.org
256 SHA1:Ft++OU96cvaREKNFCJ6AiuCpGac hg.mozilla.org
256 MD5:96:eb:3b:78:f5:ca:19:e2:0c:a0:95:ea:04:28:7d:26 hg.mozilla.org

RSA
4096 SHA256:RX2OK8A1KNWdxyu6ibIPeEGLBzc5vyQW/wd7RKjBehc hg.mozilla.org
4096 SHA1:p2MGe4wSw8ZnQ5J9ShBk/6VA+Co hg.mozilla.org
4096 MD5:1c:f9:cf:76:de:b8:46:d6:5a:a3:00:8d:3b:0c:53:77 hg.mozilla.org

Verify your SSH settings are working by attempting to SSH into a server. Your terminal output should resemble the following:

 $ ssh hg.mozilla.org
 A SSH connection has been successfully established.

 Your account (me@example.com) has privileges to access Mercurial over
 SSH.

You are a member of the following LDAP groups that govern source control
access:

   scm_level_1

This will give you write access to the following repos:

   Try

You will NOT have write access to the following repos:

   Autoland (integration/autoland), Firefox Repos (mozilla-central, releases/*), ...

 You did not specify a command to run on the server. This server only
 supports running specific commands. Since there is nothing to do, you
 are being disconnected.
 Connection to hg.mozilla.org closed.

Authenticating with Services

Various Mercurial extensions interface with services such as Bugzilla. In order to do so, they often need to send authentication credentials as part of API requests. This document explains how this is done.

mozhg.auth contains a unified API for any Mercurial extension or hook wishing to obtain authentication credentials. New extensions are encouraged to use or add to this module instead of rolling their own code.

Finding Bugzilla Credentials

mozhg.auth.getbugzillaauth() is the API used to request credentials for bugzilla.mozilla.org. It will attempt to find credentials in the following locations:

  1. The bugzilla.userid and bugzilla.cookie values from the active Mercurial config.
  2. The bugzilla.username and bugzilla.password values from the active Mercurial config.
  3. Login cookies from a Firefox profile.
  4. Interactive prompting of username and password credentials.

Credential Extraction from Firefox Profiles

As mentioned above, authentication credentials are searched for in Firefox profiles. For example, Bugzilla login cookies are looked for in Firefox’s cookie database.

The first step of this is finding available Firefox profiles via the current user’s profiles.ini file.

By default, the available profiles are sorted. The default profile is searched first. Remaining profiles are searched according to the modification time of files in the profile - the more recent the profile was used, the earlier it is searched.

If the bugzilla.firefoxprofile config option is present, it will explicitly control the Firefox profile search order. If the value is a string such as default, only that profile will be considered. If the value is a comma-delimited list, only the profiles listed will be considered and profiles will be considered in the order listed.