Re: [RFC] Secure central repositories by UNIX socket authentication

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 27, 2008, 14:04 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801271402330.23907@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20080127103934.GA2735@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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>     ## Owner (not jdoe)
>     ##
>   cat >foo.git/hooks/update <<'EOF'
>   #!/bin/sh
>   test -z "$GIT_REMOTE_USER" || exit
>   case "$GIT_REMOTE_USER" in
>   jdoe)     exit 0;;
>   spearce)  exit 0;;
>   *)        exit 1
>   esac
>   EOF
>   chmod u+x foo.git/hooks/update
>   chmod 700 foo.git
> 
>   git daemon \
>       --export-all \
>       --enable=receive-pack \
>       --base=`pwd` \
>       --listen=/tmp/shawn-git
> 
>     ## Other User
>     ##
>   git push jdoe@server:/tmp/shawn-git/foo.git master

I probably miss something, but if you already go through SSH, the $USER is set appropriately, no?

So you could do without git-daemon entirely, and replace the GIT_REMOTE_USER variable in the hook by USER.

Ciao, Dscho