Questions about permission and rights access

[Fulgurance]

Hi guys, I try to understand something , because actually I can't get the result I would like.

Basically, for the package manager I made ISM, I would like every user in the group ISM can run the software.

But I am facing an issue. ISM sometimes need to run git commands. When for example it run git ls-remote, even the current user is in the ism group, git ls-remote just get an error
But if I login as user ism, it work. Do I need to set something more ?

To make you understand, it's what I did under my custom linux system:

[szatox]

2 things from the top of my head:

A single copy of git is supposed to be used by a single user.
It _can_ be configured to be used by a group, instead, but doing so you risk linux permissions getting in your way, so you shouldn't do that unless you can guarantee g+rw permissons on all files tracked by your repo. In case of a package manager, you can't.
So, what can you do about it?
1. Have ism switch user to a dedicated account.
2. (Shallow) clone your repo to a temporary location and work on it instead.
3. Set git to shared mode and then checkout to a new, disposable worktree, outside of repo directory. (This is basically #2, but won't instantly catch all your mistakes, so you get an opportunity to shoot your foot)


However, git started on a non-shared repo from a wrong user should tell you that it's not a shared repo and you're a wrong user. It should _refuse_ to work, and not _fail_ to work.

[Fulgurance]

Yes it's the weird point as I mentioned before. As you can see, when I login as ism user (so not root), it can read it. But not the other users, even root
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My actual project: https://github.com/Fulgurance/ISM

Ingenius Software Manager is a tool to build and manage a Linux system from scratch.
It will able to manage a linux installation just with a given path to the futur root path

[szatox]

Right. But that just means you have 2 problems there.
I understand why you don't want your system doing things you didn't expect. Can you read that git config manually from a wrong user rather than implicitly by invoking git? It's just a text file.
Is your repo configured to be shared by multiple users?

Regardless of the answers to above questions, you really shouldn't be sharing repos between users. I do get why you'd want to, but it will come back to bite you.
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[Fulgurance]

Yes, these repositories can be shared by all users in the group ism

But you said the file can be parse easily ? Maybe will be better I follow this way. Which file is it ?
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My actual project: https://github.com/Fulgurance/ISM

Ingenius Software Manager is a tool to build and manage a Linux system from scratch.
It will able to manage a linux installation just with a given path to the futur root path

[szatox]

All metadata in git is text files, only the history is compressed (in .git/objects)
Remotes are listed in .git/config
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