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Re: [BUG?] How to make a shared/restricted repo?

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Mar 26, 2009, 09:58 UTC
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<200903261044.58140.johan@herland.net>
Johan Herland schrieb:
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> In the above patch, I've passed mode == -1 to finalize_temp_file() from all
> callsites where there was no corresponding (f)chmod(foo, 0444). However,
> after looking at the context (these are all either packs or loose objects),
> I'm wondering if we shouldn't pass mode == 0444 for all of these. At which
> point we could replace the above patch with this much simpler version:
Indeed!
> (We could also add an optional "mode" argument to adjust_shared_perm(), to
> get rid of the double chmod().)

And I think you should do that, otherwise you have a short time window where the permissions of a pack or loose object is less restrictive than you want.

-- Hannes
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Message 22 of 30 in “[BUG?] How to make a shared/restricted repo?”
  1. Johan HerlandMar 25, 2009
  2. Brandon CaseyMar 25, 2009
  3. Johan HerlandMar 25, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2009
  6. Johan HerlandMar 25, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2009
  8. 0/7 Restricting repository access (Was: [BUG?] How to make a shared/restricted repo?)Johan Herland, Mar 25, 2009
  9. 1/7 Clarify documentation on permissions in shared repositoriesJohan Herland, Mar 25, 2009
  10. 2/7 Cleanup: Remove unnecessary if-else clauseJohan Herland, Mar 25, 2009
  11. 3/7 Introduce core.restrictedRepository for restricting repository permissionsJohan Herland, Mar 25, 2009
  12. 4/7 git-init: Introduce --restricted for restricting repository accessJohan Herland, Mar 25, 2009
  13. 5/7 Add tests for "core.restrictedRepository" and "git init --restricted"Johan Herland, Mar 25, 2009
  14. 6/7 git-init: Apply correct mode bits to template files in shared/restricted repoJohan Herland, Mar 25, 2009
  15. 7/7 Apply restricted permissions to loose objects and pack filesJohan Herland, Mar 25, 2009
  16. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2009
  17. Johan HerlandMar 26, 2009
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 26, 2009
  19. Johan HerlandMar 26, 2009
  20. Johannes SixtMar 26, 2009
  21. Johan HerlandMar 26, 2009
  22. Johannes SixtMar 26, 2009
  23. 0/2 chmod cleanup (Was: [BUG?] How to make a shared/restricted repo?)Johan Herland, Mar 26, 2009
  24. 1/2 Move chmod(foo, 0444) into move_temp_to_file()Johan Herland, Mar 26, 2009
  25. Junio C HamanoMar 28, 2009
  26. Johan HerlandMar 28, 2009
  27. 2/2 Resolve double chmod() in move_temp_to_file()Johan Herland, Mar 26, 2009
  28. Junio C HamanoMar 28, 2009
  29. Johan HerlandMar 28, 2009
  30. Junio C HamanoMar 29, 2009

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