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

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] 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
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/