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Re: How to prevent changes to repository by root

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NSNicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Date
Jun 16, 2010, 15:09 UTC
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The 14/06/10, Nazri Ramliy wrote:
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> I have a git repository owned by a non-privileged user account on a
> machine that is logged into (via ssh) by multiple users. These multiple users,
> all of them (not at at the same time) do "git pull" on this repository.
> 
> Everything is fine as long as they don't do the "git pull" as root.
> 
> Murphy's law and all, someone is bound to do "git pull" as root on that repo
> and that would sometime cause problem for the non-privileged user (who 'own')
> the git repo to do subsequent git operations on that repository.
> 
> My question is:
> 
> How do I limit any action on this repository to this non-privileged user only?

Don't give root access to your users. This is the only sane thing to do in the unix world. ,-p

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Nicolas Sebrecht
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  1. Nazri RamliyJun 14, 2010
  2. Nicolas SebrechtJun 16, 2010
  3. Aneurin PriceJun 16, 2010
  4. Nazri RamliyJun 17, 2010
  5. Pete HarlanJun 18, 2010

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