Re: [RFC] Single system account for multiple git users

From: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>
Date: Jun 30, 2008, 15:59 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0806300858380.25384@alchemy.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20080630151113.GO5737@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> Using SSH access with restricted git-shell as login shell and using the 
> script from the update-hook-example.txt works fine, but it requres that 
> every Git user has a separate system account on the server, which is 
> often frowned upon by system administrators, who would prefer to have a 
> single system account for access to Git repo.
>
> I have looked on gitosis, but it requires normal shell account for the 
> git user, which was vetoed by sysadmin. Also, I found its configuration 
> more complex than necessary and not flexible enough to differentiate 
> what branches can have non-fast-forward pushes on it and what cannot.

I seem to recall that gitosis works with git-shell. Maybe I'm mis-remembering, though.

-- Asheesh.

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