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ryancey
ryancey

Reputation: 1057

Make a git deployment owned by www-data

My post-receive hook deploys to /home/repo, where my Apache virtual host is pointing. I would like /home/repo to be owned by www-data.

Should I add git to /etc/sudoers and allow it to execute a custom script that make chown -R www-data:www-data /home/repo as root after each pushing ? git don't seem to be able to do it as himself. Seems pretty insecure though.

Edit: post-receive is doing a git checkout -f and chmod -R 750 /home/repo under git user. I just leave git own /home/repo and added www-data (or any Apache user) to the git group so it can read it.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3211

Answers (1)

bredikhin
bredikhin

Reputation: 9025

Interesting. Why do you care about user ownership? Setting up some flexible group permissions and adding Apache user to your git group should be more than enough, in general. Other than that, I would really recommend you to take a look at Capistrano for deployment.

Upvotes: 1

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