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Re: [RFC] Single system account for multiple git users

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MFMelchior FRANZ <melchior.franz@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 1, 2008, 08:55 UTC
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* Dmitry Potapov -- Monday 30 June 2008:
> [...] but it requres that every Git user has a separate system
> account on the server, which is often frowned upon by system
> administrators, who would prefer to have a single system account
> for access to Git repo.

Indeed. This is AFAIK the main reason why git might not be used by a project where I'm contributor. gitosis could help here, but I guess that a built-in solution would be preferred. An external addon looks a bit like band-aid. ;-)

m.
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