Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-27 Thread Marius Mårnes Mathiesen
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:16 AM, martin mar...@siamect.com wrote: The https solution is not mature in the same way as the ssh solution. SSH has protected Unix/Linux boxes for ages. One might argue that SSH has exposed Unix/Linux boxes to attacks, not protected them, for ages; just have a

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-27 Thread Marius Mårnes Mathiesen
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:42 PM, jarrod.rober...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, lots of people disable the HTTP support completely and only use SSH for writes and Git of read only access. This is what we do for our installation. This is very important for work flows where people should be able to

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-27 Thread martin
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 10:17 +0200, Marius Mårnes Mathiesen wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:16 AM, martin mar...@siamect.com wrote: The https solution is not mature in the same way as the ssh solution. SSH has protected Unix/Linux boxes for ages. One might argue

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-27 Thread Benjamin Podszun
Hi there On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Marius Mårnes Mathiesen marius.mathie...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:16 AM, martin mar...@siamect.com wrote: I don't understand why you are concerned about the dedicated git user account... just lock it down properly. You have exactly

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-27 Thread Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
Em 27-06-2011 05:30, Marius Mårnes Mathiesen escreveu: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:42 PM, jarrod.rober...@gmail.com mailto:jarrod.rober...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, lots of people disable the HTTP support completely and only use SSH for writes and Git of read only access. This is what we do

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-27 Thread Benjamin Podszun
Hi On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas rr.ro...@gmail.com wrote: Em 27-06-2011 08:33, Benjamin Podszun escreveu: Hi there On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Marius Mårnes Mathiesen marius.mathie...@gmail.com  wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:16 AM,

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-27 Thread Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
Em 27-06-2011 10:25, Benjamin Podszun escreveu: Hi On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas rr.ro...@gmail.com wrote: Em 27-06-2011 08:33, Benjamin Podszun escreveu: Hi there On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Marius Mårnes Mathiesen marius.mathie...@gmail.comwrote: On

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-27 Thread Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
Em 27-06-2011 10:41, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas escreveu: Em 27-06-2011 10:25, Benjamin Podszun escreveu: Hi On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas rr.ro...@gmail.com wrote: Em 27-06-2011 08:33, Benjamin Podszun escreveu: Hi there On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Marius

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-27 Thread Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
Em 27-06-2011 10:47, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas escreveu: ... I think it is not currently possible to listen on port 22 with effective uid other than 0 in Unix-like systems, but I may be wrong since I'm not really a security specialist. If we set it up to run in another port, than instead of

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-26 Thread martin
On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 22:05 +0200, Christian Johansen wrote: For my own servers I would turn off the HTTP protocol for push/pull anyway... Why? Explanation is below here: I like to have http only for the Gitorious web interface. I can open

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-26 Thread jarrod . roberson
On , Marius Mårnes Mathiesen marius.mathie...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone subscribed to this list will know that installing Gitorious is not for the faint of heart. There are a lot of moving parts, a lot of dependencies, and getting everything right is difficult. I really want to change this.

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-26 Thread Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
Hi Jarrod, I would be happy to merge any changes to my Gitorious Chef recipe for it to work on CentOS/Redhat too. I can download a CentOS image for testing it and I can help you with Chef specific bits as long as I understand it. It just happens that there is a long time since I last used

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-24 Thread Ismail Dhorat
Hi, I am pretty new to this list. Just joined yesterday, and only just getting a gitorious installation setup behind the firewall. However, my thoughts are if HTTP can offer everything that SSH can with the same reliability, rather go with a single protocol. It would make the code easier to

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-24 Thread Marius Mårnes Mathiesen
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Benjamin Podszun benjamin.pods...@gmail.com wrote: I would. The deployment of ssh is well-known and understood, and probably already exists as a way to access machines/services in a lot of shops. I trust ssh, trust the code quality and security audits.

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-24 Thread elf Pavlik
Hello, We'll investigate what it will take to use SSL client certificates for authentication, since this will: - save the users from entering their passwords when pushing/putting the credentials in .git/config or elsewhere - provide better integrity for credentials: you'd need access to the

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-24 Thread martin
Well I'm quite faint hearted and I have installed Gitorious a number of times (4-5) so I don't really think it is that hard... Please keep the SSH and Git protocols as they are. People like me expect it to work the same way at Gitorious as it does according to the Git documentation. For my own

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-24 Thread Benjamin Podszun
Another open question: Do clients actually support this http based cloning decently? Think Git Extensions, TortoiseGit et al? -- To post to this group, send email to gitorious@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gitorious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-24 Thread Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
Hi Marius, First, I would like you to congratulate you and Johan for the good work and efforts you both put on this feature. Then, I would like to say that I would be really really sad if SSH support was deprecated. I think that providing your public key from a user's point of view is

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-24 Thread Pedro Kiefer
Hi Marius, I don't think it is a good idea to drop/deprecate support for ssh or git-proxy. But I do like the approach of having modularized protocols, maybe ssh and git handler should be refactored to its own modules? So one can choose what it wants to install. Any way, great job! Cheers On

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-24 Thread Christian Johansen
First, I would like you to congratulate you and Johan for the good work and efforts you both put on this feature. Thanks, but my name is Christian. Johan stepped down, remember? :) Then, I would like to say that I would be really really sad if SSH support was deprecated. I think that

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-24 Thread Christian Johansen
So - although I still think that ssh should stay and that GUI client support is a valid point: I cannot ignore the thought that I might be just a lazy bum that wants to keep it as it is, for the sake of it. :) No worries. You are definitely right in that we want to reach a wider audience, but

Re: [gitorious] Proper protocol

2011-06-24 Thread Christian Johansen
Thanks, but my name is Christian. Johan stepped down, remember? :) Right, sorry, Christian. It is just the new age's effect :) ;) If you could have well-performing, secure and easy-to-use HTTP pull/push, then why wouldn't you use it? Because I want all my repository submodules URL