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| author | Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> | 2022-06-23 12:35:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> | 2022-06-23 12:35:23 +0200 |
| commit | 2f8809f9a1838eb607f14097dcd63071f2eb00fe (patch) | |
| tree | 35cf8fe9c40e60bf331e3bf5f47dd1a80b0251ae /Documentation/config | |
| parent | Git 2.31.3 (diff) | |
| parent | Git 2.30.5 (diff) | |
| download | git-2f8809f9a1838eb607f14097dcd63071f2eb00fe.tar.xz git-2f8809f9a1838eb607f14097dcd63071f2eb00fe.zip | |
Sync with 2.30.5
* maint-2.30:
Git 2.30.5
setup: tighten ownership checks post CVE-2022-24765
git-compat-util: allow root to access both SUDO_UID and root owned
t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo
git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged
t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/config')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/safe.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/safe.txt b/Documentation/config/safe.txt index 6d764fe0cc..74627c5e7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/safe.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/safe.txt @@ -26,3 +26,17 @@ directory was listed in the `safe.directory` list. If `safe.directory=*` is set in system config and you want to re-enable this protection, then initialize your list with an empty value before listing the repositories that you deem safe. ++ +As explained, Git only allows you to access repositories owned by +yourself, i.e. the user who is running Git, by default. When Git +is running as 'root' in a non Windows platform that provides sudo, +however, git checks the SUDO_UID environment variable that sudo creates +and will allow access to the uid recorded as its value in addition to +the id from 'root'. +This is to make it easy to perform a common sequence during installation +"make && sudo make install". A git process running under 'sudo' runs as +'root' but the 'sudo' command exports the environment variable to record +which id the original user has. +If that is not what you would prefer and want git to only trust +repositories that are owned by root instead, then you can remove +the `SUDO_UID` variable from root's environment before invoking git. |