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From: Andre Masella <andre@masella.no-ip.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Repository Security
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:33:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701221433.13257.andre@masella.no-ip.org> (raw)

I've been using git for a while and really like it, but I have a concern about 
security.

As I understand it, none of the repository backends allow any per-user 
per-branch access control. SSH and HTTP come the closest with the right 
hooks, but since the repository is writeable by those users, there is little 
to stop them from changing the repository directly.

If this is truly the case, I was thinking of creating something similar to 
SVN's Apache plugin to provide more sophisticated access control. I'm leaning 
toward the HTTP remote (transport? backend? What's the right term?) because 
Apache can do many kinds of authentication. I could also make the HTTP less 
dumb, if I had a better idea what that might involve. This could also be a 
way to solve the requests for remote repository creation I see in the survey.

So, before I start, I would like to get ideas from others...or be told this is 
a waste of time. Thanks.
-- 
--Andre Masella (andre at masella.no-ip.org)

             reply	other threads:[~2007-01-22 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-22 19:33 Andre Masella [this message]
2007-01-22 20:53 ` Repository Security Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-23 13:23   ` Andre Masella
2007-01-22 23:46 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-01-23  9:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-23 13:23   ` Andre Masella
2007-01-23 14:29     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-23 15:00     ` Andy Parkins
2007-01-23 11:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-23 13:23   ` Andre Masella
2007-01-23 21:38     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-24  9:31     ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-23 16:18   ` Linus Torvalds

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