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From: Ed <ed.since.06@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: jnareb@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unprivileged User
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 01:08:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b9545a0611302208s43d7644do1ddd050d49c50014@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vwt5djmt5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Thanks, I looked at the perl script and did it explicitly and it
works... I am on mac os x, but I do not know why that would affect the
behaviour of getpwuid...

On 11/30/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Ed wrote:
> >
> >> From gitweb it says that my git project's owner is: Unprivileged User
> > ...
> > Actually gitweb uses uid/user the repository (the $GIT_DIR), unless you
> > provide it with an index file.
>
> This is a shot in the dark, but by any chance is this repository
> owned by nobody, which is mapped to "Unprivileged User" by
> /etc/passwd?  Googling for "Unprivileged User" and "getpwent"
> tells me that on OSX boxes nobody seems to map to that Gecos
> name.
>
> To explicitly set the names of list of projects and their
> owners, set up $projects_list text file.  A hint for its format
> is found around line 1111 in gitweb/gitweb.perl script.
>
> Hopefully somebody has documentation for gitweb configuration
> so that people do not have to refer to the source to find things
> out, but I do not know of a URL offhand...
>
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-01  6:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-30  5:54 Unprivileged User Ed
2006-11-30  9:07 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-30  9:39   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-01  6:08     ` Ed [this message]
2006-11-30 10:50   ` Pazu

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