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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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