On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 06:25:51PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected],  [email protected]
> > Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:31:32 +0200
> > 
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > >> From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
> > >> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:53:27 +0200
> > >> Cc: Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>
> > >>
> > >>     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.

- Sylvain



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