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Re: Unprivileged User

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EEd <ed.since.06@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 1, 2006, 06:08 UTC
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<2b9545a0611302208s43d7644do1ddd050d49c50014@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks, I looked at the perl script and did it explicitly and it works... I am on mac os x, but I do not know why that would affect the behaviour of getpwuid...

On 11/30/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Ed wrote:
> >
> >> From gitweb it says that my git project's owner is: Unprivileged User
> > ...
> > Actually gitweb uses uid/user the repository (the $GIT_DIR), unless you
> > provide it with an index file.
>
> This is a shot in the dark, but by any chance is this repository
> owned by nobody, which is mapped to "Unprivileged User" by
> /etc/passwd?  Googling for "Unprivileged User" and "getpwent"
> tells me that on OSX boxes nobody seems to map to that Gecos
> name.
>
> To explicitly set the names of list of projects and their
> owners, set up $projects_list text file.  A hint for its format
> is found around line 1111 in gitweb/gitweb.perl script.
>
> Hopefully somebody has documentation for gitweb configuration
> so that people do not have to refer to the source to find things
> out, but I do not know of a URL offhand...
>
>
>
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  1. EdNov 30, 2006
  2. Jakub NarebskiNov 30, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 30, 2006
  4. EdDec 1, 2006
  5. PazuNov 30, 2006

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