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Re: How to identify the users?

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SYScott Yan <scottyan19@gmail.com>
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Jan 31, 2013, 06:53 UTC
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Thanks to all.

Tomas: I can't find reflog setting of git-http-backend doc(http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-http-backend.html), I tried this setting: git config core.logAllRefUpdates true

and after some test push, the output is as below:
>git log -g master
commit d34e61baa28eabf46ba5e9f6a2feb24cc683ed39
Reflog: master@{0} (Scott Yan <scottyan19@gmail.com>)
Reflog message: push
Author: Scott Yan <scottyan19@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 31 14:19:30 2013 +0800

this log shows when pushed, but still can't tell Who, because the author info may be fake. I don't know if I made some mistake.

Sitaram:

It seems I must host my central repo on Gitolite first... I don't know Gitolite much, but you are right, maybe I should use Gitolite as my git server. I'll find more documents about gitolite these days, can you give me some suggestion which tutorial should I read? Thanks! ps: my OS is windows.

Regards, Scott Yan

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 01/31/2013 11:38 AM, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
>> On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:52:32 +0800, Scott Yan <scottyan19@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello everyone:
>>>
>>> The user info of git client (user name and email) is set by the users
>>> themselves, so , how to avoid userA pretend to be userB?
>>>
>>> Git server could authentication the user, but it do nothing about the
>>> user info of commit message.
>>>
>>> For example:
>>> There are 20 people of my team, and everyone can push to the public
>>> repository(git server),
>>> If I found some backdoor code in my project, and the commit record
>>> shows it was committed by userA, so I ask userA: why do you do this?
>>> but he told me: no, this is not my code, I have never committed such
>>> thing.  ----and yes, everyone could change his user info to userA very
>>> easily .
>>>
>>> so... what should I do to avoid such situations?
>>
>> gitolite keeps a log of which SSH user pushed which commits. The smart-http
>> backend does the same if you have reflog enabled on the server (see the
>> ENVIRONMENT section in man git-http-backend). So unless someone can steal
>> userA's credentials (http password, ssh key) you'll be able to detect who it
>> really was.
>
> See also my rant on this topic:
>
> https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/blob/master/src/VREF/EMAIL-CHECK#L37
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