Re: git credential cache and sudo

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Jeff King wrote:

> Note that it's a little funky to be accessing the cache as a different user than
> the one who created it. This should work reliably when the cache was created by
> your normal user, but then accessed as root, because root has permissions to
> access the socket. But if you spawn a cache daemon as root (because the _first_
> operation you perform is as root, which automatically starts a daemon to store
> the cached credential), then it's likely you won't be able to access it as your
> regular user.

I wonder if this suggests a missing feature in
git-credential-cache(1): if the manpage advertised a way to launch the
daemon through an explicit command, similar to 'ssh-agent', then a
user could run that as themselves before running other commands that
communicate with it as another user.

All that said: John, why are you running git as root in the first
place?  It's likely that it's safer to run git as a different user and
use a separate command such as rsync to perform the privileged deploy
action.

Thanks,
Jonathan