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Re: Setting up a Git server (+ gitweb) with .htaccess files HOWTO

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Feb 14, 2012, 08:59 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> After seeing the section that runs "git init" in a throw-away CGI script,
> I started wondering what the point of this site in forbidding a shell
> access in the first place.

The sysadmin trusts users enough to allow running arbitrary CGI there. Not giving shell access greatly limits the accidental mis-uses of the server, or silly attacks by incompetent users (i.e. "students" ;-) ). A few years ago, people had shell access on most servers, and they were using it to run seti@home & other heavy stuff there.

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Matthieu Moy
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