Question

I’m have a script that needs to be invoked with sudo, but there is one part where I have to clone a GIT repo git clone foo:repo path/to/files, and to do that it needs my regular users ssh key, which is all defined in my regular users $HOME/.ssh/config file.

.ssh/config:
host foo
    HostName foo.com
    User myuser
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

is there a way when when calling this script to keep my ssh config data so the repo can be cloned? I tried passing -E flag to sudo, but it didn’t seem to have any effect.

Answer 1

all credit goes to @that-other-guy from comments to original post.

instead of:

if [[ 'svn' == $repoType ]]; then
    svn co ...
elif [[ 'git' == $repoType ]]; then
    git clone ...
fi

which, since I’m sudo-ing, causes my clone to not have access to my users .ssh/config data for my key

switched to:

if [[ 'svn' == $repoType ]]; then
    (sudo -u $SUDO_USER svn co ...)
elif [[ 'git' == $repoType ]]; then
    (sudo -u $SUDO_USER git clone ...)
fi