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Git Credential Manager for Mac and Linux stores credentials for Git version control securely. Provides secure logon for Visual Studio Team Services (visualstudio.com).
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Doesn't work with Linux Mint 19 Tara #108

Closed tometchy closed 5 years ago

tometchy commented 5 years ago

On Linux Mint 19 Tara, after installing and typing "git fetch" I get runtime exception that this OS doesn't have secure credential storage. I can't see in docs how can I install such a dependency, or what should I do in this case. Exception is:

Fatal: java.lang.RuntimeException encountered.  Details:
Secure credential storage is not available on this operating system. You may opt-in to store credentials in an unencrypted file under your user home directory by running 'git config --global credential.canFallBackToInsecureStore true'.
fatal: credential helper '!/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java -Ddebug=false -Djava.net.useSystemProxies=true -jar /home/tometchy/git-credential-manager/git-credential-manager-2.0.4.jar' told us to quit

My OS version is: $ cat /etc/*-release

DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=19
DISTRIB_CODENAME=tara
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 19 Tara"
NAME="Linux Mint"
VERSION="19 (Tara)"
ID=linuxmint
ID_LIKE=ubuntu
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 19"
VERSION_ID="19"
HOME_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://linuxmint-troubleshooting-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
VERSION_CODENAME=tara
UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic

My git version is 2.17.1.

I know I can fall back to plain text password storing, but this is not why I wanted to install secure manager :)

tometchy commented 5 years ago

As there is still no answer I was forced to use different solution - libsecret. For those who ended up with similar situation I have described on my blog how to install and configure it, it's pretty simple - softwaredeveloper.blog/git-credential-storage-libsecret

tometchy commented 5 years ago

I'm closing because it's being discussed in another issue - #115.