commit error 'fatal: detected dubious ownership'

[ulzschkt]

Hi!

After trying every possible 'solution' i could find my problem is still there:

I have a debian-based server and dokuwiki is hosted by apache. The corresponding git-repo lies in a /home-directory and is owned by the user 'test' and the group 'test-grp'. The 'local.php' config of dokuwiki is correct and everything worked fine for many months. But last year there probably was a policy change in git which includes a proof of the repo-ownership. If it doesnt match with the currently executing user (of commit/push/...) git throws an error.

In dokuwiki the error message is as follows:

" DokuWiki Setup Error

Something unforeseen has happened: Git committing or pushing failed: fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/home/test' To add an exception for this directory, call: git config --global --add safe.directory /home/test "

The obvious solution to add the directory as safe.directory does not work for several reasons. One is that www-data (or whoever executes the command) is no normal user and therefore has no .gitconfig or similar. I tried do add the proposed command to the git-options in the plugin configuration (in local.php) or to put a global .gitconfig (with the right content) somewhere in the filesystem and set environment variables like GIT_CONFIG, GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL, ... to point there. For testing purposes i also added www-data to the user-group of the repo owner or moved the complete repo to the installation folder of dokuwiki (/var/www/html/dokuwiki) changed the ownership accordingly.

Nothing of this worked and i have no idea what i should do. Thanks for your help in advance.

[mhoffrog]

@ulzschkt You can try to configure it as a git system config. The system git config is managed on Linux systems at /etc/gitconfig (!!! Watch that it is /etc/gitconfig and NOT /etc/.gitconfig !!!).

Run command sudo git config --system --add safe.directory /home/test - sudo should enable write access to /etc/gitconfig. All other users - at least www-data in your case - must have read access to this config file.

If you want to disable the safety check for any repo, you can run sudo git config --system --add safe.directory '*'.

[mhoffrog]

@ulzschkt Did my answer help to solve your issue or do you have any feedback?

[woolfg]

close it for now. feel free to open it again

[ulzschkt]

Hi. Sorry for my late response. I tried it but unfortunately i didnt solve the problem.

I added the file as proposed: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 Sep 12 14:11 /etc/gitconfig

i holds the following content: [safe] directory = /home/test

[mhoffrog]

@ulzschkt You have to make sure to add the directory where the .git folder is in! You should give it a try with the wildcard first!

sudo git config --system --add safe.directory '*'

If this works, you can try to restrict it to particular folders.

[ulzschkt]

Hi! Thanks for your reply. My folder /home/test includes the .git folder already. I added the wildcard to /etc/gitconfig (as you suggested) and it worked. :) I dont know why it's not working when i restrict it to my folder, but the wildcard solution is also ok. Thank you!