Create (if necessary) and link the gitlab-shell secret file on the rake install task

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/gitlab/backend/shell.rb b/lib/gitlab/backend/shell.rb
index e31840ef919..34e0143a82e 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/backend/shell.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/backend/shell.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+require 'securerandom'
+
 module Gitlab
   class Shell
     class Error < StandardError; end
@@ -188,6 +190,21 @@ module Gitlab
       File.exist?(full_path(storage, dir_name))
     end
 
+    # Create (if necessary) and link the secret token file
+    def generate_and_link_secret_token
+      secret_file = Gitlab.config.gitlab_shell.secret_file
+      unless File.exist? secret_file
+        # Generate a new token of 16 random hexadecimal characters and store it in secret_file.
+        token = SecureRandom.hex(16)
+        File.write(secret_file, token)
+      end
+
+      link_path = File.join(gitlab_shell_path, '.gitlab_shell_secret')
+      if File.exist?(gitlab_shell_path) && !File.exist?(link_path)
+        FileUtils.symlink(secret_file, link_path)
+      end
+    end
+
     protected
 
     def gitlab_shell_path