From: "Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, bagasdotme@gmail.com,
johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de,
Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo
Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 06:07:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220516130753.kgelgbfovs5kze7h@Carlos-MacBook-Pro-2.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo7zy59p3.fsf@gitster.g>
On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 10:27:04PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> Hmph, it may not be needed, but it should still work, in which case
> >> it probably is still worth testing, even with the optional patch #4.
> >
> > Just because it works, it doesn't mean we have to test it.
>
> Yes. It all depends on the answer to this question
Not quite, after all this is part of the "git" testsuite and therefore will
only apply if it would be testing git's functionality, and in this case it
does not.
More details below.
> Is it
> reasonably expected that any half-way intelligent Git user would not
> be surprised to learn that "sudo sudo git status" would be a way to
> work on a repository that is owned by root as root? Given that
> "sudo git status" is a good way to work on a repository that is
> owned by you as root, perhaps the answer is yes, but I am not
> a representative sample ;-)
>
> If the answer is yes, then we would want to make sure it will
> continue to work by having a test to protect it from future
> breakage. If not, and "sudo sudo git" (or worse "sudo sudo sudo
> git") is something that would be imagined by the most wicked mind
> and no sane person would imagine it would be a way to achieve
> something useful, no, it does not have to be protected from any
> future breakage.
The answer is "yes", but it is because of a misunderstanding (which has
nothing to do with intelligence, but just experience with sudo and the type
of environment where it runs).
* sudo does NOT respect SUDO_UID, indeed is one of those few *NIX tools
that doesn't even respect EUID but insist on only trusting the real id.
* once you run something through sudo, it creates an environment for you
that is based on its security policy and not even the invoking user can
change some of the parametersr it uses to do that, only "root" can.
* that means that once you invoke the first sudo, then the second runs as
root and ignores the SUDO_UID the first sudo creates, so by the time git
gets to run, it will only see the SUDO_UID that the one that invoked it
creates, and since that sudo was running as root it MUST be the same than
a root owned file/directory would use, hence why it works for that root
owned repository and would fail in one that is owned by the original user.
there is no new functionality or code path difference inside git between the
first and second invocation of sudo, the only relevant difference is that
the starting environment from the two last processes in that triple chain
have different values for the SUDO_UID environment variable.
Carlo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-16 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 170+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-26 18:31 [RFC PATCH] git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running priviledged Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-26 19:48 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-04-26 19:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-26 20:10 ` rsbecker
2022-04-26 20:45 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-26 21:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-26 20:12 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-26 20:26 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-29 16:16 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-04-27 0:05 ` [PATCH] git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-27 9:33 ` Phillip Wood
2022-04-27 12:30 ` Phillip Wood
2022-04-27 14:15 ` rsbecker
2022-04-27 15:58 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-27 16:14 ` Phillip Wood
2022-04-27 18:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-27 20:59 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-27 21:09 ` rsbecker
2022-04-27 21:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 17:56 ` Phillip Wood
2022-04-27 15:38 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-27 15:50 ` rsbecker
2022-04-27 16:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-27 16:45 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-27 17:22 ` Phillip Wood
2022-04-27 17:49 ` rsbecker
2022-04-27 17:54 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-27 18:05 ` rsbecker
2022-04-27 18:11 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-27 18:16 ` rsbecker
2022-04-27 16:31 ` Phillip Wood
2022-04-27 16:54 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-27 17:28 ` Phillip Wood
2022-04-27 17:49 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-27 22:26 ` [RFC PATCH v2] " Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-27 22:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 3:35 ` [PATCH 0/2] fix `sudo make install` regression in maint Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-28 3:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: explain how safe.directory works when running under sudo Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-28 5:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 5:58 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-28 6:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 3:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] t: add tests for safe.directory when running with sudo Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-28 5:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 4:57 ` [PATCH 0/2] fix `sudo make install` regression in maint Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 10:58 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-28 10:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-28 18:02 ` Phillip Wood
2022-04-28 18:57 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-28 10:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: explain how safe.directory works when running under sudo Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-30 6:17 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2022-04-30 6:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-30 14:15 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-28 10:58 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] t: add tests for safe.directory when running with sudo Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-28 16:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 18:08 ` Phillip Wood
2022-04-28 18:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-06 17:50 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-06 21:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-06 22:57 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-06 23:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-07 11:57 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-28 19:53 ` rsbecker
2022-04-28 20:22 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-28 20:43 ` rsbecker
2022-04-28 20:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 20:56 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-28 21:55 ` rsbecker
2022-04-28 22:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 22:45 ` rsbecker
2022-04-28 20:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 20:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 20:40 ` rsbecker
2022-04-28 20:48 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-28 21:02 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-28 21:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-29 1:24 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-29 18:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-29 20:05 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-02 18:39 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] fix `sudo make install` regression in maint Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-02 18:39 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/3] t: document regression git safe.directory when using sudo Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-02 21:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-02 23:07 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-02 18:39 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-02 18:39 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/3] t0034: enhance framework to allow testing more commands under sudo Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-02 22:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-03 0:00 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-03 6:54 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] fix `sudo make install` regression in maint Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-03 6:54 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] t: document regression git safe.directory when using sudo Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-03 14:03 ` Phillip Wood
2022-05-03 15:56 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-04 11:15 ` Phillip Wood
2022-05-04 13:02 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-04 14:11 ` Phillip Wood
2022-05-05 13:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-05-05 14:34 ` Phillip Wood
2022-05-05 15:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-05 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-05 19:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-06 21:03 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-09 8:21 ` Phillip Wood
2022-05-09 14:51 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-09 15:18 ` Phillip Wood
2022-05-09 16:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-09 16:21 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-06 17:39 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-03 6:54 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-05 14:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-05-05 14:32 ` Phillip Wood
2022-05-06 19:15 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-06 20:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-06 20:22 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-06 20:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-06 21:40 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-06 21:07 ` rsbecker
2022-05-05 16:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-06 20:02 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-03 6:54 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] t0034: enhance framework to allow testing more commands under sudo Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-03 14:12 ` Phillip Wood
2022-05-03 15:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-06 16:54 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-07 16:35 ` [RFC PATCH v4 0/3] fix `sudo make install` regression in maint Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-07 16:35 ` [RFC PATCH v4 1/3] t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-07 16:35 ` [RFC PATCH v4 2/3] git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-07 17:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-07 18:56 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-09 16:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-09 17:36 ` rsbecker
2022-05-09 18:48 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-09 19:16 ` rsbecker
2022-05-09 19:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-07 16:35 ` [RFC PATCH v4 3/3] t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-10 14:17 ` [RFC PATCH v4 0/3] fix `sudo make install` regression in maint Phillip Wood
2022-05-10 15:47 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-10 17:46 ` [PATCH " Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-10 17:46 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-10 22:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-10 23:11 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-10 23:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-11 0:56 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-11 1:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-10 17:46 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-10 22:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-11 7:34 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-11 14:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-10 17:46 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-10 23:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-10 23:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-11 14:04 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-11 15:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-13 1:00 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] fix `sudo make install` regression in maint Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-13 1:00 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-06-03 12:12 ` SZEDER Gábor
2022-05-13 1:00 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-06-03 11:05 ` SZEDER Gábor
2022-06-03 16:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-06-03 17:34 ` SZEDER Gábor
2022-05-13 1:00 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-05-13 1:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-14 14:36 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-15 16:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-15 19:21 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-05-16 5:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-16 13:07 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón [this message]
2022-05-16 16:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-13 1:00 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] git-compat-util: allow root to access both SUDO_UID and root owned Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-06-15 14:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-06-17 14:26 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-06-17 16:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-06-17 20:23 ` [PATCH v6] " Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-06-17 21:02 ` Junio C Hamano
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