From: Ed <ed.since.06@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:08:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Unprivileged User
Message-ID: <2b9545a0611302208s43d7644do1ddd050d49c50014@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwt5djmt5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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:
> 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...
>
>
>