Re: [PATCH 0/2] upload-pack: pre- and post- hooks

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>]

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On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Arun Raghavan wrote:

> On 1 February 2010 22:06, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> >> I think such hooks could be allowed only if triggered explicitly by the
> >> upload-pack caller, such as git-daemon.  That's probably the only
> >> scenario where a useful use case can be justified for them anyway.
> >>
> >> And of course, to avoid any security problems, the actual hooks must not
> >> be provided by the repository owner but provided externally, like from
> >> git-daemon, via some upload-pack command line arguments.  This way the
> >> hooks are really controlled by the system administrator managing
> >> git-daemon and not by any random git repository owner.
> >>
> >> That should be good enough for all the use cases those hooks were
> >> originally designed for.
> >
> > Oooh, I like that.
> >
> > If the paths to the hooks are passed in on the command line of
> > git-upload-pack, and git-daemon takes those options and passes
> > them through, you're right, we probably get everything we need.
> >
> > Gitosis can still use the hooks if it wants, since it controls
> > the call of git-upload-pack.
> 
> I can add the uid check before running the hook as well. Is that good
> enough, or would you guys like me to start from scratch with the
> command-line argument approach?

Please forget the uid check and go with the command-line argument 
approach.  That's the only sane solution.


Nicolas