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Re: [PATCH] t/lib-git.sh: fix ACL-related permissions failure

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 4, 2021, 19:49 UTC
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Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org> writes:
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> SSH keys are expected to be created with very restrictive permissions,
> and SSH commands will fail if the permissions are not appropriate.  When
> creating a directory for SSH keys in test scripts, attempt to clear any
> ACLs that might otherwise cause the private key to inherit less
> restrictive permissions than it requires.

All of the above makes sense as an explanation as to why the ssh-keygen command may be unhappy with the $GNUPGHOME directory that is prepared here, but ...

> This change is required in particular to avoid tests relating to SSH
> signing failing in Cygwin.

... I am not quite sure how this explains "tests relating to ssh signing failing on Cygwin". After all, this piece of code is lazy_prereq, which means that ssh-keygen in this block that fails (due to a less restrictive permissions) would merely mean that tests that are protected with GPGSSH prerequisite will be skipped without causing test failures. After all that is the whole point of computing prereq on the fly.

> Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
> Helped-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>

Please order these chronologically, i.e. Fabian helped and the patch was finished, and finally you sent with your sign off.

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> ---
>  t/lib-gpg.sh | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/t/lib-gpg.sh b/t/lib-gpg.sh
> index f99ef3e859..1d8e5b5b7e 100644
> --- a/t/lib-gpg.sh
> +++ b/t/lib-gpg.sh
> @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ test_lazy_prereq GPGSSH '
>  	test $? = 0 || exit 1;
>  	mkdir -p "${GNUPGHOME}" &&
>  	chmod 0700 "${GNUPGHOME}" &&
> +	(setfacl -k "${GNUPGHOME}" 2>/dev/null || true) &&
>  	ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N "" -C "git ed25519 key" -f "${GPGSSH_KEY_PRIMARY}" >/dev/null &&
>  	echo "\"principal with number 1\" $(cat "${GPGSSH_KEY_PRIMARY}.pub")" >> "${GPGSSH_ALLOWED_SIGNERS}" &&
>  	ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -N "" -C "git rsa2048 key" -f "${GPGSSH_KEY_SECONDARY}" >/dev/null &&

There are other uses of ssh-keygen in the real tests but presumably they just use the GNUPGHOME directory prepared with this lazy_prereq block, and "setfacl -k" here would have wiped any possible loosening of permission, and that is why this is the only place that needs a change, right? That fact might deserve recording in the proposed log message.

Thanks.
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  1. t/lib-git.sh: fix ACL-related permissions failureAdam Dinwoodie, Nov 4, 2021
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2021
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2021
  4. Fabian StelzerNov 4, 2021
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 5, 2021
  6. Adam DinwoodieNov 5, 2021
  7. Jeff KingNov 5, 2021
  8. Fabian StelzerNov 5, 2021
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 5, 2021
  10. Adam DinwoodieNov 5, 2021
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 5, 2021
  12. Adam DinwoodieNov 5, 2021
  13. Carlo ArenasNov 5, 2021
  14. lib-test: show failed prereq was Re: [PATCH] t/lib-git.sh: fix ACL-related permissions failureFabian Stelzer, Nov 12, 2021
  15. Junio C HamanoNov 13, 2021
  16. Fabian StelzerNov 13, 2021
  17. Jeff KingNov 5, 2021
  18. Jeff KingNov 5, 2021
  19. Junio C HamanoNov 5, 2021
  20. Ramsay JonesNov 4, 2021
  21. Adam DinwoodieNov 5, 2021
  22. Ramsay JonesNov 5, 2021
  23. t/lib-git.sh: fix ACL-related permissions failureAdam Dinwoodie, Nov 5, 2021
  24. Junio C HamanoNov 5, 2021
  25. Kerry, RichardNov 8, 2021
  26. Junio C HamanoNov 8, 2021
  27. Kerry, RichardNov 9, 2021
  28. Junio C HamanoNov 9, 2021

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