Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 05:39:43AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
>> > ALLOWED_ENV="PATH HOME"
>> > HOME=/
>>
>> I can work around it by changing the init script to use su - git -c "bla
>> bla" to launch the thing, instead of using --user=git --group=daemon,
>> but that's just a bandaid for the busted environment setup those
>> switches were supposed to make happen, no?
>
> Yeah, I think the bug here is that git-daemon should be setting $HOME
> when it switches privileges with --user. Does this patch fix it for you?
>
> diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c
> index 6aeddcb..a4451fd 100644
> --- a/daemon.c
> +++ b/daemon.c
> @@ -1091,6 +1091,7 @@ static void drop_privileges(struct credentials *cred)
> if (cred && (initgroups(cred->pass->pw_name, cred->gid) ||
> setgid (cred->gid) || setuid(cred->pass->pw_uid)))
> die("cannot drop privileges");
> + setenv("HOME", cred->pass->pw_dir, 1);
> }
>
> static struct credentials *prepare_credentials(const char *user_name,
Yeah, that sounds like the obvious fix to me.
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