From: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:28:07 GMT
Subject: Re: How to prevent changes to repository by root
Message-ID: <AANLkTimjIraq-qDaifACixJ4cCOYuvkf1v-hVpeaVt3u@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikPNH1ueb5m8JpiB2hU4afd3hv-4qYqSO3QPujl@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Aneurin Price <aneurin.price@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.