Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.0-rc2
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 01:33:30 -0700, David Miller wrote:
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> As a followup this turned out to be the classic "PATH when doing GIT over
> SSH" problem.
>
> I have to say this is very unfun to debug, and even less fun to "fix"
> even once you know this is the problem. And what's more I know this is
> the second time I've had to spend a night debugging this very problem.
>
> I ended up having to make a ~/.ssh/environment file and then restart my
> SSH server with "PermitUserEnvironment yes" added to sshd_config.
>
> But I can't believe this is what I have to do just to pull from a machine
> where I have GIT only installed in my home directory. What if I were just
> a normal user and couldn't change the SSHD config? What hoops would I
> need to jump through to get my PATH setup correctly? :)
>
> It doesn't even work to put ~/bin into the PATH listed in the system wide
> /etc/environment, because that does not do tilde expansion, SSHD just takes
> it as-is.
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to put the bindir into PATH when we try to do
> execv_git_cmd()? The code has already put the gitexecdir into the
> PATH at this point.
I don't think it gets to execv_git_cmd(). Git on local side will run
ssh <host> git upload-pack
and it's ssh that can't find git in ~/bin (or maybe it's still using the
dashed form for backward compatibility; the argument stands either way).There are two possible solutions (besides the .ssh/environment one):
1. Without hacking git: Use a separate key pair for git access and configure
that key on the server with 'command="/home/you/bin/git-shell"' option in
.ssh/authorized_keys. Git shell should run the command from exec-dir
properly.
2. Hack git to support some variable to set the remote command for ssh
protocol.--
Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>