Re: git-push through git protocol

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 22, 2007, 02:26 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90701211826v54340352lf4376db41ad5be37@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701211749140.14248@woody.osdl.org>

On 1/22/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

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> Umm. Your git daemon is probably running as "nobody", and simply doesn't
> have write permissions to the archive, does it?
>
> > % cat /etc/xinet.d/git-daemon
> > service git
> > {
> >         user            = nobody
>
> iow, I think you simply need to make sure that git-daemon will have write
> permission to the thing. Either by making the whole repository writable by
> nobody, or by running git-daemon as the proper user.

Whereby I personaly run back quickly to cover under my git-over-ssh safety blanket.

:-)

martin