On 9 Dec 2008, Sverre Rabbelier spake thusly: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 09:56, Thomas Koch <thomas@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Our admin would prefer to not open SSH at all outside our LAN, but >> developers would need to have write access also outside the office. > > What safer to connect to the LAN than with SSH? What _would_ your > system admin be happy with using? telnet. I do not jest, this is our sysadmins' stated reasons for not opening the git port and for tweaking their (mandatory) HTTP proxy to block HTTP traffic from git. (Telnet over some horrible impossibly slow buggy proprietary VPN. It takes >5min to bring up a single connection.) Do not underestimate the stupidity and hideboundedness of undertrained system administrators, for it is vast. -- 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
