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From: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
To: Aneurin Price <aneurin.price@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to prevent changes to repository by root
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:28:07 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimjIraq-qDaifACixJ4cCOYuvkf1v-hVpeaVt3u@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikPNH1ueb5m8JpiB2hU4afd3hv-4qYqSO3QPujl@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Aneurin Price <aneurin.price@gmail.com> wrote:
> How are they becoming root? If they are using sudo you could forbid
> running git as root. If they are using su or logging in directly maybe
> you can get away with some trivial thing like putting 'alias
> git=/bin/false' in /root/.bashrc - or some wrapper which does
> something helpful rather than silently fail :-).

Thanks for dropping the hint on wrapper.

I've implemented one that give the user a friendly reminder
that they are running git as root and ask whether to continue.

nazri.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-17  2:28 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
2010-06-16 16:09 ` Aneurin Price
2010-06-17  2:28   ` Nazri Ramliy [this message]
2010-06-18 20:45     ` Pete Harlan

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