Re: gdb.git hiccup

[Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 08:51:32AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>But when I tried to diagnose it, I discovered that there are unreadable
>>temporary pack files owned by from back in February that prevent a local clone.
>>
>>  sourceware$ cd /git/archer.git/objects; ls -l tmp*
>>  -rw-------  1 rmoseley archer  368640 Feb  9  2009 tmp_pack_hMUtoO
>>  -rw-------  1 rmoseley archer  876544 Feb  9  2009 tmp_pack_jmBcho
>>  -rw-------  1 rmoseley archer 1007616 Feb  9  2009 tmp_pack_zbwx0m
>>
>>I have neither root access nor archer group membership, so cannot remove
>>them, and sent a request to overseers yesterday.  No reply yet.
>
> How did rmosely manage to create these files when he does not have
> login privileges?

Via git.
tmp_pack_ files are created by git, but obviously not always
removed by the version of git that was running back then.
rmosely *does* have write access to the archer git repository.

> Do we need to close a hole here somewhere?

It'd be good to make sure that can't happen again,
but it's not a security problem (DoS, maybe, though)