From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:52:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-shell.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510231751040.10477@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vhdb7vk64.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> This adds a very git specific restricted shell, that can be
> added to /etc/shells and set to the pw_shell in the /etc/passwd
> file, to give users ability to push into repositories over ssh
> without giving them full interactive shell acount.

Did you actually test that it works as somebody's login-shell and can be 
used for pushing?

I think it should add "pull" functionality too, so that you can have 
restricted reading (hey, git may be open source, but not everything that 
is maintained in it necessarily will be..)

			Linus