Re: Gforge's cvssh.pl script and git

Hi,

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Bosko Ivanisevic wrote:

In the company I'm working someone has restricted access to all users
to only use cvs via cvssh.pl script (source at the end of message)
taken from gforge. This script is set as a shell for all users. Now I
would like to change it so I can run git too. I've tried by adding
'git', 'git-upload-pack', 'git-receive-pack' and 'git-shell' in the
array @allowed_commands. After that if I try to clone existing
repository with:

git clone ssh://testuser@server_name/tmp/test.git

I get following error:

fatal: ''/tmp/test.git'': unable to chdir or not a git archive
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I first thought that testuser doesn't have permissions to read
directory /tmp/test.git so I changed mode and gave r+w permissions
recursively on that folder, but result was same.

r+w?  Not a+rwx?

And only on /tmp/test.git/, or also on /tmp/?

A better way would be to use 'sudo -u testuser git ls-remote 
/tmp/test.git' if sudo is available (you haven't revealed useful 
information about the host).

There is no way I can avoid this perl script (company policy) but I
can change it. Problem is that I do not know Perl so much and I do not
know what git is exactly doing behind the scene when it is run via
ssh.

I'd use 'system("some shell >&2");' to try to debug it.

Hth,
Dscho