Re: link user-name with ssh-login

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 19, 2012, 19:15 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7gygbdxg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F6765D0.5060706@gmail.com>

Roberto <mrgreiner@gmail.com> writes:

Show 8 quoted lines

> I have small ssh-based git server used for insite code
> development. But there is one thing I can't find how to set.
>
> In the server, each developer has a valid ssh account (I switched the
> shell to git-shell). The problem is that when a developer commit's
> some code, he can freely set in his local .git/config file the user
> name he want's to appear in the commit logs. Is there any way to
> link/force a certain ssh login to a name?

A pre-receive hook that lists the author names of the commits, along the lines of "git log --format='%an <%ae>' $OLD_HEAD..$NEW_HEAD" and compares against the name of the user authenticated against your SSH server would be a way to do this.

But that would mean you are forbidding people to accept patches from others, inspect the patches for validity and vouch for them, while giving the credit to them by recoding the author names of the patch authors.

Perhaps checking the committer name would suit your situation better. I dunno.