From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
To: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Subject: Re: How to prevent changes to repository by root
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:09:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100616150951.GA13073@vidovic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikLixhYITdJKMFb3Hw2hZvaas1DtiV3x9ThCTZz@mail.gmail.com>
The 14/06/10, Nazri Ramliy wrote:
> I have a git repository owned by a non-privileged user account on a
> machine that is logged into (via ssh) by multiple users. These multiple users,
> all of them (not at at the same time) do "git pull" on this repository.
>
> Everything is fine as long as they don't do the "git pull" as root.
>
> Murphy's law and all, someone is bound to do "git pull" as root on that repo
> and that would sometime cause problem for the non-privileged user (who 'own')
> the git repo to do subsequent git operations on that repository.
>
> My question is:
>
> How do I limit any action on this repository to this non-privileged user only?
Don't give root access to your users. This is the only sane thing to do
in the unix world. ,-p
--
Nicolas Sebrecht
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-16 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-14 3:12 How to prevent changes to repository by root Nazri Ramliy
2010-06-16 15:09 ` Nicolas Sebrecht [this message]
2010-06-16 16:09 ` Aneurin Price
2010-06-17 2:28 ` Nazri Ramliy
2010-06-18 20:45 ` Pete Harlan
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