Subject: Re: [PATCH] services: gitile: Allow to set user and group.

From: Nguyễn Gia Phong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 01:15:15 +0900

On 2024-08-01 at 11:45+03:00, Evgeny Pisemsky wrote:
> Hello! It does not work, and that is the reason for this patch.
>
> At this point group access is not enough, I have to run gitile from
> git user (of gitolite) who owns repositories. Same for fcgiwrap.
>
> Changing default user to git may be quite radical, but since the
> documentation states this:
>
> > Gitile works best in collaboration with Gitolite, and will serve the
> > public repositories from Gitolite by default.
>
> I think it is sane.

Seconded, and IMHO the Guix service documentation should mention
that the default user for gitile is to match the owner
of the repositories:

On 2024-07-31 at 18:00+03:00, Evgeny Pisemsky wrote:
+@item @code{user} (default: @code{"git"})
+Owner of the @code{gitile} process.