Hi.

Alain Peyrat <[email protected]> writes:

> On 19/11/2012 09:42, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Olivier Berger wrote:
>>
>>> FWIW, I think that I more or less captured the need in
>>
>> Yes, nice, but it’s still not possible because the
>> webserver does not run as the system user behind
>> the logged-in (web) user but as www-data.
>
> Well, to be precise, this is not possible when fusionforge is configured 
> to allow shell access on the server (the debian way) but this is 
> possible (but not available now) if fusionforge is configured without 
> shell access (using WebDAV) like using RPM or source install.
>

As I said in February last year :

Olivier Berger <[email protected]> writes:

> Le mercredi 23 février 2011 à 16:48 +0100, Thorsten Glaser a écrit :
>> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Marcel Baur wrote:
>> 
>> > Could someone share some thoughts on read-only web browsing of private
>> > SCM repositories of private projects.
>> 
>> This is currently impossible because viewvc runs with the
>> privilegues of the webserver, not the user (whereas SCM
>> repository protections operate on UNIX® group layer).
>
> Actually, it *is* possible to achieve such a setup for instance to make
> it act like CGI execution in ~ like homes...
>
> /me managed to do that once... but the apache config becomes a bit
> tricky then.

I think that if gitweb can run as a CGI, suEXEC should be able to run it as the 
user,
and not the web server.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
-- 
Olivier BERGER 
http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8
Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)

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