Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] bzr-to-git account

[Jim Meyering]

Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 06:25:51PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
>> > Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> > Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:31:32 +0200
>> >
>> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > >> From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
>> > >> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:53:27 +0200
>> > >> Cc: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
>> > >>
>> > >>     adduser --system --home /var/lib/bzr2git bzr2git
>> > >>
>> > >> [that new user will also be added to the "emacs" group]
>> > >
>> > > Please add that user with the minimal privileges needed for this job,
>> > > not the default privileges granted to humans.
>> >
>> > I have a hard time interpreting the above in any way other than "please
>> > be careful about security," which would be presumptuous and offensive.
>> > Surely you don't mean that, so it must be something else.
>>
>> I'm not sure how to respond.  Maybe I shouldn't.  I'm sorry I offended
>> you.
>
> Alternatively maybe you can grant privileges to this system user on
> the git repo only (not on the bzr one), using setfacl.

Good idea.
If that works out, this user wouldn't even need to be in the emacs group.

Hmm... now I owe an apology.  Sorry, Eli.