From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>,
"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: regression: "96b9e0e3 config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors" busted git-daemon
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:14:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130411181439.GA2820@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130411181103.GJ27070@google.com>
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:11:03AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > -- >8 --
> > Subject: [PATCH] daemon: set HOME when we switch to --user
>
> Thanks for taking care of it. For what it's worth,
>
> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
>
> I'm not sure whether to keep 96b9e0e (config: treat user and xdg
> config permission problem as errors) in the long run, BTW. There have
> been multiple reports about dropping privileges and not being able to
> access the old HOME, and I'm not convinced any more that the
> predictability is worth the breakage for such people. Though checking
> if $HOME is inaccessible and treating that case specially would be
> even worse...
>
> Insights welcome.
I could go either way. I think 96b9e0e is the right thing to do
conceptually, but I kind of doubt it was affecting all that many people.
And though it's _possible_ for it to be a security problem, I find it
much more likely that the site admin tries to set some config, gets
annoyed when it doesn't work, and debugs it. So from a practical
perspective, 96b9e0e may be doing more harm than good, even though it's
the right thing.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-11 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-10 5:33 regression: "96b9e0e3 config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors" busted git-daemon Mike Galbraith
2013-04-10 13:56 ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-11 3:39 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-04-11 5:42 ` Jeff King
2013-04-11 7:59 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-04-11 15:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-11 17:24 ` Jeff King
2013-04-11 18:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-11 18:14 ` Jeff King [this message]
2013-04-11 18:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-11 19:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-11 20:03 ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-11 22:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-11 22:23 ` Jeff King
2013-04-12 0:57 ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-12 4:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-12 4:35 ` Jeff King
2013-04-12 4:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-12 5:05 ` Jeff King
2013-04-12 5:46 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-04-12 11:26 ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-12 14:48 ` Jeff King
2013-04-12 16:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-12 16:16 ` Jeff King
2013-04-12 17:05 ` Jeff King
2013-04-12 18:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-12 19:01 ` Jeff King
2013-04-12 19:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-12 19:58 ` Jeff King
2013-04-12 20:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-12 19:14 ` [PATCH] config: allow inaccessible configuration under $HOME Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-12 19:37 ` Jeff King
2013-04-12 20:34 ` [PATCH] fixup! " Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-12 21:03 ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-13 4:28 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-05-25 11:35 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2013-04-12 17:31 ` regression: "96b9e0e3 config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors" busted git-daemon Junio C Hamano
2013-04-12 16:21 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-04-11 20:08 ` Jeff King
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2013-04-12 14:45 Evan Priestley
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