1 file changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/custom/extensions/auth-file.lua b/custom/extensions/auth-file.lua
index 5415ca7..9c9c2ee 100644
--- a/custom/extensions/auth-file.lua
+++ b/custom/extensions/auth-file.lua
@@ -136,6 +136,11 @@ end
 -- Return the stored password hash for a user, or nil. Reads the users file
 -- fresh each call. A missing or unreadable file, and any unparsable line, are
 -- skipped rather than fatal.
+--
+-- The hash is trimmed as well as the name. f:lines() strips the newline but
+-- not a carriage return, so a users file saved with CRLF endings would
+-- otherwise hand crypt a hash with a trailing \r and fail every login with
+-- nothing in the log to say why.
 function account_hash(user)
 	if user == nil then
 		return nil
@@ -149,7 +154,7 @@ function account_hash(user)
 		local u, h = string.match(line, "(.-):(.+)")
 		if u ~= nil and trim(u):lower() == wanted then
 			f:close()
-			return h
+			return trim(h)
 		end
 	end
 	f:close()
@@ -234,13 +239,22 @@ function parse_qs(qs)
 	return tab
 end
 
+-- Escape the Lua pattern magic characters, so a name is matched literally.
+local function pattern_escape(s)
+	return (string.gsub(s, "([%^%$%(%)%%%.%[%]%*%+%-%?])", "%%%1"))
+end
+
 -- Return the value of the named cookie, or nil. The stored token was already
 -- url-encoded by secure_value, so it is returned verbatim, which keeps the
 -- write path (set_cookie) and the read path symmetric. Decoding it here would
 -- break the signature check for any value carrying a percent escape.
+--
+-- The name is escaped because it lands in a pattern. A cookie_name holding a
+-- magic character, say "cgit-auth", would otherwise read as a pattern and stop
+-- matching its own cookie while matching names nobody configured.
 function get_cookie(cookies, name)
 	cookies = string.gsub(";" .. (cookies or "") .. ";", "%s*;%s*", ";")
-	return string.match(cookies, ";" .. name .. "=(.-);")
+	return string.match(cookies, ";" .. pattern_escape(name) .. "=(.-);")
 end
 
 function tohex(b)