Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: savannah shell access?

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi Savannah Hackers,

I think it would be good to grant Jim Meyering root access for the
purpose of improving git<->cvs synchronization for hosted git
repositories.

Jim has been in touch with Savannah and GNU in general for a while, so
he's "known".

May I have your point? :)


> Of course.  That would end up compromising security.

More exactly this just potentially harms data integrity.

We need to design system security as if people actually had shell
access to Savannah.

-- 
Sylvain


On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 08:27:53PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
> > But I don't wish to install a service at Savannah that would generally
> > require shell access for users.
> 
> Of course.  That would end up compromising security.
> 
> > So I think you can have direct shell access, not for managing
> > coreutils, but as a Savannah contributor, for setting up a CVS<->git
> > mechanism that also work for other projects.
> 
> Thanks.
> That is sensible.  If it works for coreutils and gnulib,
> then odds are good that it will work for other projects.