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Re: Git-daemon messing up permissions for gitweb

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 9, 2006, 18:58 UTC
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Post, Mark K wrote:
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> I'm trying to set up a git repository for mainframe Linux developers to
> use at git390.osdl.marist.edu.  Everything _seemed_ to go well, until
> Martin Schwidefsky started actually pushing changes back to the
> repository.  When he does that, the projects disappear from the web page
> that gitweb.cgi is generating.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the problem is happening because these files are
> being written out with file permissions of 640, and since Apache is
> running as user wwwrun, it can't read them:
> -rw-r-----  1 sky git  5490 Jun  9 03:35 ./linux-2.6.git/info/refs

One of the possible soultion would be to add sky to Apache group, make directory sticky-group, and make files readable by group (perhaps by marking repository as shared, or something).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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