How is the best way I can create a jailed user on a Linux machine to be used solely for a git repository?
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How is the best way I can create a jailed user on a Linux machine to be used solely for a git repository?
git-shellis a restricted shell that you can use for this purpose.If you make set a user’s login shell to
git-shellthen he can only run a limited set of server-side git helper functions which enable remote git over ssh usage but don’t permit a normal log in.