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Gitolite home directory permissions

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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: 56444 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56444: Patch to fix Gitolite home directory permissions
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:49:54 -0400

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Hi again Maxime,

What do you think of my proposal?  Do any other maintainers care to chime
in here?

- Dave

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 10:45 AM Thompson, David <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Maxime,
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 8:41 AM Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> wrote:
>
>>
>> During "guix system reconfigure", there is now window where the
>> directory temporarily has incorrect bits and hence if gitolite is
>> restarted during that time it will presumably fail.  Could a
>> 'home-permission-bits' or such field be added instead to <user-account>
>> to make things atomic?
>>
>
> That would be a nice improvement to backlog now that such a use case has
> emerged. However, I think for our immediate needs this one line patch,
> while imperfect, solves a longstanding problem adequately. So how about
> merging it, closing this bug, and opening a new bug for the system level
> improvement?
>
> - Dave
>

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