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From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Single system account for multiple git users
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Dmitry Potapov wrote:

> "The next thing to do is to create a user that will own the repositories
> you want to manage. This user is usually called git, but any name will
> work, and you can have more than one per system if you really want to.
> The user does not need a password, but does need a valid shell
> (otherwise, SSH will refuse to work)."

Does that just mean that the git-shell program
has to be listed in /etc/shells?

jdl