如何在 WSL（Windows 上的 Ubuntu）上使用 Git 凭证存储？

Question

I've tried following these instructions: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40312117/21728 which basically do this:

sudo apt-get install libsecret-1-0 libsecret-1-dev
cd /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/libsecret
sudo make
git config --global credential.helper /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/libsecret/git-credential-libsecret

But when I do any network operation, I get this error:

** (process:7902): CRITICAL **: could not connect to Secret Service: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY

That's logical I guess as there is indeed no X11 display.

How to make Git credentials caching work on Ubuntu on Windows (WSL)?

Answer 1

If you installed Git for Windows there is a windows integrated credential manager installed on your system.

You can run windows executables from WSL as found here .

To use it you can run the following command (assuming that your git for windows is installed on C:\\Program Files\\Git)

git config --global credential.helper "/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core/git-credential-manager-core.exe"

Answer 2

TL;DR

I've created a script that does this for you . I use it with my Chef orchestration.

Locate or install git-credential-manager.exe

1. Open cmd.exe and call where git-credential-manager.exe
   • If it returns a path, GREAT. Move on to converting the path.
   • If not...
2. In cmd.exe call where git.exe
   • If it does not return a path, the next step is to install the Credential Manager alone
   • If it does return a path, it will be something like:
   • C:\\Program Files\\Git\\cmd\\git.exe
   • Let's drop the everything after the next to last slash and change it like so:
   • C:\\Program Files\\Git\\mingw64\\libexec\\git-core\\git-credential-manager.exe
   • If that exists, GREAT. Move on to converting the path.
   • Otherwise...
3. Install Credential Manager from Microsoft's git repo , and then use where again to get the path.

Convert the path from DOS to Linux

We need to:

1. Replace the C:\\ with /mnt/c/
2. Flip the slashes from \\ to /
3. Escape spaces (and parenthesis if there are any) with double backslashes \\\\

So...

• "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\mingw64\\libexec\\git-core\\git-credential-manager.exe" becomes...
• "/mnt/c/Program\\\\ Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core/git-credential-manager.exe"

My script above has a function for doing just that

dos_path_to_linux(){
    sed -e 's?\\?/?g' -e' s?[cC]:?/mnt/c?' <<<"$1"
}

But, as @12345ieee has since commented , a wslpath utility has been added to WSL build 17046 . It's worth checking out, but I don't have access to Windows at this time to verify. (Note that even though a usage statement is given in the release notes in my link, it seems that the command doesn't currently include a usage statement , -h, etc.)

Configure git

1. In bash call git config --global credential.helper "<converted/path>"

Answer 3

Using Windows 10 and "WSL", I created a ~/.gitconfig file, but had mistyped the [credential] section label as [credentials]. I tried running git credential fill and then feeding its output to git credential approve, which might have worked, but I suspect not since it said "usage: git credential [fill|approve|reject]". Finally, I simply ran:

$ git config --global credential.helper cache

and then did a git pull; when prompted for user and password I typed them as usual. After that, it remembered it. I found it had added the (correctly named) section to my ~/.gitconfig:

[credential]
        helper = cache

I edited that to provide a much longer timeout:

[credential]
        helper = cache --timeout=144000

And it all seems to be working nicely now.

Answer 4

alias git=git.exe

将简单地使用 windows 中的 git.exe 及其配置

Answer 5

All the answers are overly complicated to this point. And the git documentation does not really help, they like to reference material a lot so you need to follow 2-3 links to get the info you need!

1. You do not need to use Windows git.exe with WSL! Use linux git sudo apt install git-all (I think it comes pre-installed with Ubuntu).
2. Then you can simply follow the instructions at https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Credential-Storage .

Summary

git supports 2 methods by default. To see what methods you have installed, execute this command:

git help -a | grep credential

my result was:

   credential           Retrieve and store user credentials
   credential-cache     Helper to temporarily store passwords in memory
   credential-store     Helper to store credentials on disk

How to for cache & store:

cache

@selkieTG covers this in their answer, including for completeness...

git config --global credential.helper "cache --timeout 30000"

will cache your password/token for 30,000 seconds (8 hrs 20min)

store

git config --global credential.helper "store"

will store plain text password/token in ~/.git-credentials .

Plain Text?!! For WSL, I am absolutely OK with plain text here. I enter credentials to run my Windows machine and I enter credentials to sign into WSL2. Do I need to hide these? Not really, it is more of a convenience on my dev box.

manager-core

If you really want to use manager-core you can install it in your Ubuntu version . And then use it.

Answer 6

I have just recently updated to WSL2 and in my case the following wasn't working:

"/mnt/c/Program\\\\ Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core/git-credential-manager.exe"

What worked was the following: git config --global credential.helper "/c/Program\\\\ Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core/git-credential-manager.exe"

Until I've removed /mnt/ from the path I was getting a "not found" error.

From what I've investigated there's an issue with mounting windows drives in WSL2 after a clean Windows startup, more details here: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4122 And that was the most probable cause in my case.

Another reason for this can be a misconfiguration of root directory in /etc/wsl.conf

Answer 7

Couldn't get this working with git-credential-manager.exe on WSL2 with Debian. I'd always get remote: Repository not found. with no further error.
Instead I did the same with git-credential-manager-core.exe so my config is now credential.helper=/mnt/c/Program\\ Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core/git-credential-manager-core.exe . This worked right away, with GitHub 2FA/PAT set up on Windows before hand.

I have the following git versions:

• Windows:
  git version 2.31.0.windows.1
  Git Credential Manager for Windows v1.20.0.0
• Debian/WSL2
  git version 2.30.2

Answer 8

download: (gcmcore-linux_amd64.2.0.567.18224.deb) https://github.com/GitCredentialManager/git-credential-manager/releases/tag/v2.0.567

install:

sudo apt install gcmcore -y or

sudo dpkg -i <path-to-package.deb> (gcmcore-linux_amd64.2.0.567.18224.deb)

configure:

export DOTNET_SYSTEM_GLOBALIZATION_INVARIANT=1

git-credential-manager-core configure