# git-daemon whitelist issue

2 messages from 2008-05-24 to 2008-05-26. Participants: Jose Luis Rivas Contreras, Andreas Ericsson.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13652

## Jose Luis Rivas Contreras, 2008-05-24 14:04

Subject: git-daemon whitelist issue
Message-ID: <4838208A.6020205@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4838208A.6020205%40gmail.com

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Hi, I know this will be a dummy question but I cannot find how to solve
this trying in several ways but none of them work. The issue is that
when I try to clone I get:

May 24 09:25:39 jooga git-daemon: [14724]
'/home/repo/git/xscreensaver.git': not in whitelist

My git-daemon conf is this:
8< -----
service git
{
        disable         = no
        type            = UNLISTED
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        user            = nobody
        wait            = no
        server          = /usr/bin/git-daemon
        server_args     = --inetd --export-all
}
8< -----

I've tried with `--inetd --export-all /home/repo/git', `--inetd
- --export-all --base-path=/home/repo/git /home/repo/git', with
interpolated to with a symlink but nothing works, I'm trying with:

git clone git://repo.ghostbar.ath.cx/home/repo/git/xscreensaver.git noseless

Anyway, cloning trough http worked but is not what I want :)

Any toughs?

Regards.
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## Andreas Ericsson, 2008-05-26 09:06

Subject: Re: git-daemon whitelist issue
Message-ID: <483A7D83.2000501@op5.se>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/483A7D83.2000501%40op5.se
In-Reply-To: <4838208A.6020205@gmail.com>

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Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
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> [Please CC me, I'm not subscribed]
> 
> Hi, I know this will be a dummy question but I cannot find how to solve
> this trying in several ways but none of them work. The issue is that
> when I try to clone I get:
> 
> May 24 09:25:39 jooga git-daemon: [14724]
> '/home/repo/git/xscreensaver.git': not in whitelist
> 
> My git-daemon conf is this:
> 8< -----
> service git
> {
>         disable         = no
>         type            = UNLISTED
>         socket_type     = stream
>         protocol        = tcp
>         user            = nobody
>         wait            = no
>         server          = /usr/bin/git-daemon
>         server_args     = --inetd --export-all
> }
> 8< -----
> 
> I've tried with `--inetd --export-all /home/repo/git', `--inetd
> - --export-all --base-path=/home/repo/git /home/repo/git', with
> interpolated to with a symlink but nothing works, I'm trying with:
> 

Specifying a symlinked path won't work. git-daemon (being of the
one-shot-fork school of programs) simply does a chdir() to the
requested directory and then getcwd(), which will never consider
symlinks. This is a security feature, since directory recursion
attacks will never ever work.

> git clone git://repo.ghostbar.ath.cx/home/repo/git/xscreensaver.git noseless
> 

When you specify base-path, you tell git-daemon to prepend the
base-path to the directory the user requests.

Start git-daemon like this:

git-daemon --base-path=/home/repo/git --export-all

then do

git clone git://repo.ghostbar.ath.cx/xscreensaver.git

and it should work, assuming /home/repo/git/xscreensaver.git
has no symlinks in it.

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OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231

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