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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Repository Security
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:06:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ep4q5e$ioc$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200701221433.13257.andre@masella.no-ip.org

Andre Masella wrote:

> I've been using git for a while and really like it, but I have a concern about 
> security.
> 
> As I understand it, none of the repository backends allow any per-user 
> per-branch access control. SSH and HTTP come the closest with the right 
> hooks, but since the repository is writeable by those users, there is little 
> to stop them from changing the repository directly.

I wonder if it would be enought for SSH (and perhaps HTTP/WebDAV access)
just to rely on filesystem write access to refs/heads files (different
files having different access rights), and filesystem ACLs.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-23 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-22 19:33 Repository Security Andre Masella
2007-01-22 20:53 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-23 13:23   ` Andre Masella
2007-01-22 23:46 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-01-23  9:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-23 13:23   ` Andre Masella
2007-01-23 14:29     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-23 15:00     ` Andy Parkins
2007-01-23 11:06 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-01-23 13:23   ` Andre Masella
2007-01-23 21:38     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-24  9:31     ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-23 16:18   ` Linus Torvalds

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