<html><head></head><body><div>I recommend cut and paste scripts found on the web. Be sure to run them as root. :-) </div><div><br></div><div>I ran a git install for a while. Used ssh for all user login so it was pretty much just like a standard machine.</div><div><br></div><div>All the gui stuff is just web code so the standard setups for user-supplied text input is typical. Basically treat it like a web app. Apache/nginx will whine if the perms are wrong for writing to the git repo so test it before announcing it.</div><div><br></div><div>Put it in a VM for easy backup and restore.</div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2018-06-04 at 20:11 -0400, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>On Mon, 04 Jun 2018 19:40:36 -0400</pre><pre>Joey Kelly via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></pre><pre>On Monday 04 June 2018 11:30:52 Tory Deron via Ale wrote:</pre><pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></pre><pre>I went ahead last night and pulled down all my data and deleted my</pre><pre>Github account.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Just… no. </pre><pre></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Well, if it ain't been said yet, if you have open source code with a</pre><pre>good license and watch your checksums and pull requests, you might be</pre><pre>alright, for a while. But anything proprietary, you're a fool to</pre><pre>stay, and possibly a fool for having put it there in the first place.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>...but what bothers me is, where are we supposed to go now, and why</pre><pre>so soon? Dice at Slashdot, along with SourceForge and Freshmeat. We</pre><pre>know they trojanned many SF downloads, and totally killed off</pre><pre>everyone's favorite repo (Freshmeat). Now we have to leave GitHub?</pre><pre>I'm getting a little tired of having to move every time I turn around.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I'm considering hosting my Stylz git repository on my desktop computer,</pre><pre>hopefully in a chroot jail or something like that. I'll have the git</pre><pre>http server so folks can be guided in git clone, and I'll have ssh key</pre><pre>accounts for the few with actual commit rights.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>My main concern is I don't know how to do the security.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>SteveT</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Steve Litt </pre><pre>June 2018 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting</pre><pre><a href="http://www.troubleshooters.com/28">http://www.troubleshooters.com/28</a></pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>Ale mailing list</pre><pre><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a></pre><pre><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a></pre><pre>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</pre><pre><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></pre><pre><br></pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
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