Re: Gforge's cvssh.pl script and git

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 18, 2009, 13:24 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902181417510.6274@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <2c0671440902180124v50570270gc40b745d4a8b1245@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Bosko Ivanisevic wrote:

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> In the company I'm working someone has restricted access to all users
> to only use cvs via cvssh.pl script (source at the end of message)
> taken from gforge. This script is set as a shell for all users. Now I
> would like to change it so I can run git too. I've tried by adding
> 'git', 'git-upload-pack', 'git-receive-pack' and 'git-shell' in the
> array @allowed_commands. After that if I try to clone existing
> repository with:
> 
> git clone ssh://testuser@server_name/tmp/test.git
> 
> I get following error:
> 
> fatal: ''/tmp/test.git'': unable to chdir or not a git archive
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> 
> I first thought that testuser doesn't have permissions to read
> directory /tmp/test.git so I changed mode and gave r+w permissions
> recursively on that folder, but result was same.

r+w?  Not a+rwx?

And only on /tmp/test.git/, or also on /tmp/?

A better way would be to use 'sudo -u testuser git ls-remote /tmp/test.git' if sudo is available (you haven't revealed useful information about the host).

> There is no way I can avoid this perl script (company policy) but I
> can change it. Problem is that I do not know Perl so much and I do not
> know what git is exactly doing behind the scene when it is run via
> ssh.

I'd use 'system("some shell >&2");' to try to debug it.

Hth, Dscho