Re: Revamping the git protocol

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 20, 2005, 23:35 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510210133060.10503@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510201001460.3369@g5.osdl.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 
> > git over ssh seems to be the obvious choice.
> 
> Yes, but Petr is right that there might be room for some lighter-weight 
> "gits" secure protocol. One that doesn't necessarily require a whole user 
> ID thing.
> 
> For example, let's say that you're not the maintainer of your machine, but 
> you're in an environment where you are allowed to run daemons as yourself 
> (at a university, for example). And you have a group of people who want to 
> work together at a project, but they don't want to give write permissions 
> to the world or their bigger group (group "student").

If you are not maintainer, you could still start an SSH daemon which listens on a port>1024 and gets its password data from a file different from /etc/shadow (You could even use PAM...).

Ciao, Dscho