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When exporting to graph, chown files to user

Open kofalt opened this issue 12 years ago • 1 comments

If the environment variable SUDO_USER is set to a valid user, and the running user's uid is zero, set the ownership of all graph files to the uid of SUDO_USER while exporting.

This avoids the common problem of running docket as root (to get access to docket.sock) then being unable to mess with your graph repository, because root :(

The 'do nothing if current_uid != 0' logic is in case you're running as some other not-root user, in which case you're probably doing advanced wizardry and would be confused by files getting chowned around.

Also add --no-chown flag to unconditionally disable behavior.

kofalt avatar Nov 01 '13 03:11 kofalt

As noted in #39, we should consider executing git as the SUDO_USER as well, unless git is smart enough to adjust for this on its own. Basically, research into which .gitconfig files git will use in what circumstances.

kofalt avatar Jan 12 '14 21:01 kofalt