From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30410 invoked by alias); 4 Oct 2009 15:05:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 30395 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Oct 2009 15:05:09 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx.meyering.net (HELO mx.meyering.net) (82.230.74.64) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:05:05 +0000 Received: by rho.meyering.net (Acme Bit-Twister, from userid 1000) id D3CF1556DF; Sun, 4 Oct 2009 17:05:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Jim Meyering To: overseers@sourceware.org Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: gdb.git hiccup In-Reply-To: <20091004144926.GA5475@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (Christopher Faylor's message of "Sun, 4 Oct 2009 10:49:26 -0400") References: <87ws3clkx8.fsf@meyering.net> <87r5tklij2.fsf@meyering.net> <87k4zclc87.fsf@meyering.net> <20091003233527.GA9182@caradoc.them.org> <877hvbk5xn.fsf@meyering.net> <20091004144926.GA5475@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:05:00 -0000 Message-ID: <878wfri4ip.fsf@meyering.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-10/txt/msg00071.txt.bz2 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)