The fact that the git transport does not do any authentication is
easily overlooked. For example, DNS poisoning may result in
fetching from somewhere that was not intended.
Add a brief security notice to the "GIT URLS" section
of the documentation stating that the git transport should be used
with caution on unsecured networks.
Signed-off-by: Fraser Tweedale <frase@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/urls.txt | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 3ca122f..b58a647 100644
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ and ftps can be used for fetching and rsync can be used for fetching
and pushing, but these are inefficient and deprecated; do not use
them).
+The git transport does not do any authentication and should be used
+with caution on unsecured networks.
+
The following syntaxes may be used with them:
- ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
--
1.8.3.1
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