Hi,
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Bosko Ivanisevic wrote:
> In the company I'm working someone has restricted access to all users
> to only use cvs via cvssh.pl script (source at the end of message)
> taken from gforge. This script is set as a shell for all users. Now I
> would like to change it so I can run git too. I've tried by adding
> 'git', 'git-upload-pack', 'git-receive-pack' and 'git-shell' in the
> array @allowed_commands. After that if I try to clone existing
> repository with:
>
> git clone ssh://testuser@server_name/tmp/test.git
>
> I get following error:
>
> fatal: ''/tmp/test.git'': unable to chdir or not a git archive
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>
> I first thought that testuser doesn't have permissions to read
> directory /tmp/test.git so I changed mode and gave r+w permissions
> recursively on that folder, but result was same.
r+w? Not a+rwx?
And only on /tmp/test.git/, or also on /tmp/?
A better way would be to use 'sudo -u testuser git ls-remote
/tmp/test.git' if sudo is available (you haven't revealed useful
information about the host).
> There is no way I can avoid this perl script (company policy) but I
> can change it. Problem is that I do not know Perl so much and I do not
> know what git is exactly doing behind the scene when it is run via
> ssh.
I'd use 'system("some shell >&2");' to try to debug it.
Hth,
Dscho
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