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On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 09:20:38PM +0400, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> Perhaps, /usr/sbin would be a better place, as it is intended only for
> system administration binaries.

I'd argue that git-shell isn't *exclusively* for root, which is the
criteria for sbin. It's pretty easy to imagine a user setting up their
own ~/.ssh/authorized_keys with a special passphraseless key that
can only do git operations.

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