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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.5.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-shell.txt | 16 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a498fd6fdc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Git v2.10.5 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.10.4 +------------------- + + * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git daemon" by default, + as it is old and largely unmaintained. + + * Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of + backticks, leaving them susceptible to end-user input. They have + been corrected. + +Credits go to joernchen <joernchen@phenoelit.de> for finding the +unsafe constructs in "git cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for +finding and fixing instances of the same issue in other scripts. + diff --git a/Documentation/git-shell.txt b/Documentation/git-shell.txt index 2e30a3e42d..54cf2560be 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-shell.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-shell.txt @@ -79,6 +79,22 @@ EOF $ chmod +x $HOME/git-shell-commands/no-interactive-login ---------------- +To enable git-cvsserver access (which should generally have the +`no-interactive-login` example above as a prerequisite, as creating +the git-shell-commands directory allows interactive logins): + +---------------- +$ cat >$HOME/git-shell-commands/cvs <<\EOF +if ! test $# = 1 && test "$1" = "server" +then + echo >&2 "git-cvsserver only handles \"server\"" + exit 1 +fi +exec git cvsserver server +EOF +$ chmod +x $HOME/git-shell-commands/cvs +---------------- + SEE ALSO -------- ssh(1), |