# Re: \[PATCH\] daemon: return "access denied" if a service is not allowed

- From: Jeff King \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-06-15 22:52:15 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7529366
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7529362/t.md

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On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 01:48:51PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King [ref] writes:
> 
> >> It would have been a better split to have the 1/2 patch to support both
> >> informative and uninformative errors, with the default to say "access
> >> denied", and 2/2 to flip the default to be more open.
> >
> > Isn't that what I did? It was what I meant to do, anyway...
> >
> > Or did you mean the options would have been better worded as:
> >
> >   --errors={terse,informative}
> >
> > or something similar?
> 
> Nothing that elaborate.
> 
> Supporting --no-* variant even when the default is already no will allow
> people to prepare their daemon invocation command line beforehand to ensure
> that they won't be affected to a more lenient default that may or may not
> come in the future.  That's all.

Oh. Then look again at 1/2. It supports both forms; I just didn't bother
advertising the --no form in the manpage, since it was the default.

-Peff
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