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Re: How to prevent changes to repository by root

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Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
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Jun 17, 2010, 02:28 UTC
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Aneurin Price <aneurin.price@gmail.com> wrote:
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> How are they becoming root? If they are using sudo you could forbid
> running git as root. If they are using su or logging in directly maybe
> you can get away with some trivial thing like putting 'alias
> git=/bin/false' in /root/.bashrc - or some wrapper which does
> something helpful rather than silently fail :-).
Thanks for dropping the hint on wrapper.

I've implemented one that give the user a friendly reminder that they are running git as root and ask whether to continue.

nazri.
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  1. Nazri RamliyJun 14, 2010
  2. Nicolas SebrechtJun 16, 2010
  3. Aneurin PriceJun 16, 2010
  4. Nazri RamliyJun 17, 2010
  5. Pete HarlanJun 18, 2010

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