• onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    Not sure what you’re suggesting. Here… are you suggesting random write access to a port on a device you host? Anybody can push a branch to your selfhosted repo?

    Or are you talking about self-hosted forgejo, gitlab, etc.?

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      3 months ago

      Yes, if you want to accept pull requests from anyone, you can set up a jailed git server with public access, for example.

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        3 months ago

        That’s not a pull request, but a merge request. Besides the point though. What I’m getting at is: isn’t that asking for trouble? Somebody could

        while true ; do
          head /dev/urandom -c 100MB > file.txt
          git add file.txt
          git commit -m "new commit"
          git push
        done
        

        and fill up your hard drive. Also, depending on the protocol, they could try fuzzing it. Or, pipe /dev/urandom into nc and blast your git port.

        And of course, the first problem is discoverability. Who’s going to find your random, unfederated, git service?

        It just doesn’t sound like a convincing solution, IMO.

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