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From: Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH] documentation: add git transport security notice
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:53:59 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1372226039-31689-1-git-send-email-frase@frase.id.au> (raw)

The fact that the git transport does not do any authentication is
easily overlooked.  For example, DNS poisoning may result in
fetching from somewhere that was not intended.

Add a brief security notice to the "GIT URLS" section
of the documentation stating that the git transport should be used
with caution on unsecured networks.

Signed-off-by: Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au>
---
 Documentation/urls.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 3ca122f..b58a647 100644
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ and ftps can be used for fetching and rsync can be used for fetching
 and pushing, but these are inefficient and deprecated; do not use
 them).
 
+The git transport does not do any authentication and should be used
+with caution on unsecured networks.
+
 The following syntaxes may be used with them:
 
 - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
-- 
1.8.3.1

             reply	other threads:[~2013-06-26  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-26  5:53 Fraser Tweedale [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-07-05  8:41 [PATCH] documentation: add git transport security notice Fraser Tweedale
2013-07-07  0:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-06-24 10:23 Fraser Tweedale
2013-06-24 16:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-24 21:57   ` Fraser Tweedale
2013-06-24 22:27     ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-06-24 22:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-24 22:47         ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-06-24 22:28     ` Junio C Hamano

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