Put whole gitlab installation to read-only mode

Question

I wish to deny to push changes to any repository by any user. Technically, I need to switch whole gitlab to read-only mode. Is there simple way to do this?

Answer 1

If you don't want to mess with the user privileges (as done in this PR), one approach would be to change the gitlab-shell pre-receive hook.

If the pre-receive hook always "exit 1", that should disable any push to any repo.

Answer 2

Actually a better answer is to change this flag to true. This makes the entire instance read only and adds a nice header in the app.