Public bug reported: Greetings,
I recently had users of a git server complaining when they did a git clone/fetch over git:// they got a warning: remote: warning: unable to access '/home/erik_m_bray/.config/git/attributes': Permission denied where erik_m_bray is my username on that server. I had recently restarted the git-daemon server by running `sudo /etc/init.d/git-daemon restart`. Similar issues are on stack exchange: http://serverfault.com/questions/634439/unable-to-access-root-config- git-attributes-permission-denied In the man page for git-daemon, the documentation for the --user option states: Like many programs that switch user id, the daemon does not reset environment variables such as $HOME when it runs git programs, e.g. upload-pack and receive-pack. When using this option, you may also want to set and export HOME to point at the home directory of <user> before starting the daemon, and make sure any Git configuration files in that directory are readable by <user>. Since this init script does not set $HOME properly git-daemon will still use whatever $HOME was when it was started (mine, in this case, since sudoers is configured to preserve the user's $HOME by default). $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS Release: 14.04 but this looks to be the case in current versions as well. ** Affects: git (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630644 Title: git-daemon.init: Does not set $HOME properly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/+bug/1630644/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
