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Re: Unprivileged User

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 30, 2006, 09:39 UTC
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
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> 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...

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