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Re: Removal of post-upload-hook

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 14, 2010, 20:43 UTC
Message-ID
<20100114204305.GC26883@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20100114194107.GA20033@spearce.org>
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:41:07AM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> > Because receive-pack runs as the user who is pushing, not as the
> > repository owner. So by convincing you to push to my repository in a
> > multi-user environment, I convince you to run some arbitrary code of
> > mine.
> 
> Uhhh, this was in fetch/upload-pack Peff, not push/receive-pack.
> 
> Same issue though.

Errr...yeah. Sorry for the confusion. But yes, it's the same mechanism, except that it is even easier to get people to pull from you (to get them to push, you first have to get them to write a worthwhile code contribution. ;) ).

-Peff
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Message 5 of 21 in “Removal of post-upload-hook”
  1. Arun RaghavanJan 14, 2010
  2. Jeff KingJan 14, 2010
  3. Shawn O. PearceJan 14, 2010
  4. Arun RaghavanJan 14, 2010
  5. Jeff KingJan 14, 2010
  6. Robin H. JohnsonJan 14, 2010
  7. Jeff KingJan 15, 2010
  8. Arun RaghavanJan 15, 2010
  9. Ilari LiusvaaraJan 15, 2010
  10. Arun RaghavanJan 15, 2010
  11. 0/2 upload-pack: pre- and post- hooksArun Raghavan, Feb 1, 2010
  12. 1/2 upload-pack: Reinstate the post-upload-pack hookArun Raghavan, Feb 1, 2010
  13. 2/2 upload-pack: Add a pre-upload-pack hookArun Raghavan, Feb 1, 2010
  14. Shawn O. PearceFeb 1, 2010
  15. Arun RaghavanFeb 1, 2010
  16. Shawn O. PearceFeb 1, 2010
  17. Arun RaghavanFeb 2, 2010
  18. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2010
  19. Shawn O. PearceFeb 1, 2010
  20. Arun RaghavanFeb 2, 2010
  21. Nicolas PitreFeb 2, 2010

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