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Re: git-clone fails when current user is not in /etc/passwd

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 9, 2015, 16:08 UTC
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On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Taylor Braun-Jones <taylor@braun-jones.org> wrote:

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> My use case it running git clone inside a docker container with
> `docker run --user $(id -u):$(id -g) --volume /foo:/foo ...`. I want
> all /foo/* file creation/access from inside the Docker container to be
> done as the current uid/gid of the host system.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> mkdir /tmp/docker-git
> cat > /tmp/docker-git/Dockerfile <<EOF
> FROM ubuntu
> RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git-core
> EOF
> docker build -t git /tmp/docker-git/
> docker run --user $(id -u):$(id -g) git git clone
> https://github.com/git/git.git /tmp/git
> # fatal: unable to look up current user in the passwd file: no such user

It probably helps if you could get the stack trace to this message (printed from function xgetpwuid_self). I haven't checked if my personal laptop has docker to reproduce this.. In general we won't ask passwd if the user specifies name/email in the config file. But I still don't see why git-clone needs that info in the first place.

-- 
Duy
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Message 3 of 20 in “git-clone fails when current user is not in /etc/passwd”
  1. Taylor Braun-JonesDec 2, 2015
  2. Taylor Braun-JonesDec 9, 2015
  3. Duy NguyenDec 9, 2015
  4. Duy NguyenDec 9, 2015
  5. Taylor Braun-JonesDec 9, 2015
  6. Taylor Braun-JonesDec 10, 2015
  7. Jeff KingDec 10, 2015
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2015
  9. Jeff KingDec 10, 2015
  10. 0/3 git-clone fails when current user is not in /etc/passwdJeff King, Dec 10, 2015
  11. 1/3 ident: make xgetpwuid_self() a static local helperJeff King, Dec 10, 2015
  12. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2015
  13. 2/3 ident: keep a flag for bogus default_emailJeff King, Dec 10, 2015
  14. Jeff KingDec 10, 2015
  15. 3/3 ident: loosen getpwuid error in non-strict modeJeff King, Dec 10, 2015
  16. Jeff KingDec 14, 2015
  17. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2015
  18. Taylor Braun-JonesDec 11, 2015
  19. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2015
  20. Taylor Braun-JonesDec 10, 2015

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