1git-shell(1) 2============ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-shell - Restricted login shell for Git-only SSH access 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git shell' [-c <command> <argument>] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15 16A login shell for SSH accounts to provide restricted Git access. When 17'-c' is given, the program executes <command> non-interactively; 18<command> can be one of 'git receive-pack', 'git upload-pack', 'git 19upload-archive', 'cvs server', or a command in COMMAND_DIR. The shell 20is started in interactive mode when no arguments are given; in this 21case, COMMAND_DIR must exist, and any of the executables in it can be 22invoked. 23 24'cvs server' is a special command which executes git-cvsserver. 25 26COMMAND_DIR is the path "$HOME/git-shell-commands". The user must have 27read and execute permissions to the directory in order to execute the 28programs in it. The programs are executed with a cwd of $HOME, and 29<argument> is parsed as a command-line string. 30 31Author 32------ 33Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 34 35Documentation 36-------------- 37Documentation by Petr Baudis and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 38 39GIT 40--- 41Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite