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Re: git dangerous operations on alioth



On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:51:33 +0100, Arno Töll wrote:

> On 28.02.2013 11:07, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:39:26AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> >> Has anybody had experience controlling access to git repositories, for
> >> example, to give users access but prevent some of the following
> >> dangerous operations?

I think the interesting (non-technical) first question is why this
would be needed.

> > Related to this, there is also the risk that a user will ssh on alioth
> > and rm the repository (accidentally or not). Do we have any kind of
> > protection against that? (e.g. backups we can access to without
> > bothering the alioth admins, or a way to give git access but not ssh
> > access, or...)

At least for pkg-perl I'm quite confident that someone would just
push their locally cloned repo back to Alioth in case it was deleted
there accidentally.
 
> Personally I do host almost all my packages in collab-maint and contrary
> to common belief, I only made good experiences with it. This is more of
> a hypothetical discussion therefore.

Ack.

Again from my pkg-perl experience: Since before I joined all DDs have
commit access and we hand out group membership/commit bits quite
liberally to non-DDs. I don't remember any malicious action and the
few accidents are just minor annoyances that are quickly fixed after
the fact.
 

Cheers,
gregor

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