Re: How to prevent changes to repository by root
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- Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
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- 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
-- Nicolas Sebrecht