On Wed, 2008-12-24, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 14:02 -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > > Cannot you do this with new $export_auth_hook gitweb configuration > > variable, added by Alexander Gavrilov in > > dd7f5f1 (gitweb: Add a per-repository authorization hook.) > > It is used in check_export_ok subroutine, and is is checked also when > > getting list of project from file > > > > From gitweb/INSTALL [...] > > For example, if you use mod_perl to run the script, and have dumb > > http protocol authentication configured for your repositories, you > > can use the following hook to allow access only if the user is > > authorized to read the files: [...] > $export_auth_hook would work, and it would have the nice (but not > essential) feature of including private projects in the list shown to > suitably authenticated users. The only problem is that my Web host > doesn't support mod_perl. Is there a practical way to accomplish the > same thing as the above example in a CGI script? I would like to avoid > reimplementing Apache authentication-checking functionality if at all > possible. I know it is written that the example code is for mod_perl, but I don't think it is mod_perl specific; have you checked if it works for you? I assume that you use Apache, and have Apache Perl bindings installed... -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- 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
