Re: [PATCH] Add git-shell.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Oct 24, 2005, 01:36 UTC
Message-ID: <7vek6bu24o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510231751040.10477@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

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> On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> This adds a very git specific restricted shell, that can be
>> added to /etc/shells and set to the pw_shell in the /etc/passwd
>> file, to give users ability to push into repositories over ssh
>> without giving them full interactive shell acount.
>
> Did you actually test that it works as somebody's login-shell and can be 
> used for pushing?

I made a temporary user on my notebook, set it as his login shell, and run peek-remote against it (which means the git-shell spawned upload-pack on the other end). No, I did not try pushing when I sent the patch

But I just did, and it seems to work, so this should hit the master branch soon ;-).