On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:25:38PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> >>> Ethan Reesor wrote: >>> >>> > I have a git user set up on my server. It's prompt is set to >>> > git-prompt and it's git-shell-commands is empty. >>> [...] >>> > How do I make the git user work like github where, upon attempting to >>> > get a prompt, the connection is closed? >>> >>> I assume you mean that the user's login shell is git-shell. >>> >>> You can disable interactive logins by removing the >>> ~/git-shell-commands/ directory. Unfortunately that doesn't let you >>> customize the message. Perhaps it would make sense to teach shell.c >>> to look for a >>> >>> [shell] >>> greeting = 'Hi %(username)! You've successfully authenticated, but I do not provide interactive shell access.' >>> >>> setting in git's config file. What do you think? >> >> I think something like that makes sense. To my knowledge there is no way >> with stock git to customize git-shell's output (at GitHub, that message >> comes from our front-end routing process before you even hit git-shell >> on our backend machines). >> >> The "username" in our version of the message comes from a database >> mapping public keys to GitHub users, not the Unix username. But I >> suspect sites running stock Git would be happy enough to have >> %(username) map to the actual Unix username. > > Yeah, that greeting is cute---I like it ;-) Indeed! In gitolite, I borrowed that idea added to it by making it print a list of repos you have access to, along with what permissions (R or RW) you have :-) I'm not suggesting git should do that, but instead of a fixed string, a default command to be executed would be better. That command could do anything the local site wanted to make it do, including something eqvt to what I just said. This of course now means that the ~/git-shell-commands should not be empty, since that is where this default command also will be present. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html