Re: Revamping the git protocol

From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: 2005-10-21 09:35:28
Hi,

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 
> > git over ssh seems to be the obvious choice.
> 
> Yes, but Petr is right that there might be room for some lighter-weight 
> "gits" secure protocol. One that doesn't necessarily require a whole user 
> ID thing.
> 
> For example, let's say that you're not the maintainer of your machine, but 
> you're in an environment where you are allowed to run daemons as yourself 
> (at a university, for example). And you have a group of people who want to 
> work together at a project, but they don't want to give write permissions 
> to the world or their bigger group (group "student").

If you are not maintainer, you could still start an SSH daemon which 
listens on a port>1024 and gets its password data from a file different 
from /etc/shadow (You could even use PAM...).

Ciao,
Dscho

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