New user/group in /usr/ports/UIDs and /usr/ports/GIDs

Douglas Thrift douglaswth at gmail.com
Mon Feb 15 23:09:29 UTC 2016


On 2/15/2016 2:46 PM, Matthias Fechner wrote:
> Am 15.02.2016 um 16:24 schrieb Kurt Jaeger:
>>> it is not blocking in a hard way.
>>> But if you have it installed you deinstall it and reinstall it again,
>>> you maybe get permission problems, because the UID/GID for the gogs user
>>> can change.
>>
>> That's a valid point.
>>
>> Is there a reason for the gogs user to have /bin/sh instead
>> of /usr/sbin/nologin ?
> 
> yes, the shell is required, because the user will login using public ssh
> key and then a git process is triggered to be able to push/pull via git.
> 
> Gruß
> Matthias
> 

I mentioned this already on that ticket, but why use the user "gogs"
instead of "git" which is already used by the gitosis and gitolite
ports? That seems like a more standard thing to see in your git urls:

git clone git at example.com vs git clone gogs at example.com

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