Should we allow a runner to generate temporary personal access token in order to push in GitLab API projects ?
I saw this issue gitlab-ce#18106 that propose to allow a runner to push back in its project the changes he might have done. It proposes to use the developers' rights for that.
I am actually trying to do the same thing, i.e. clone & push, but in a separate project using three GitLab variables CI_JOB_TOKEN
to clone & push, GITLAB_USER_NAME
and GITLAB_USER_EMAIL
to configure the git. However, despite having the right to clone & push in the separate project, I can't find any way to do that properly using http(s).
In fact, cloning, adding and commiting works fine with those but the push always fail.
I already managed to do that using the SSH key method but I would like to avoid this.
I don't know if it has already been discussed or if this isn't the right place to post this. I don't even know if GitLab forbids this process at first.
EDIT
I figured out the CI_JOB_TOKEN
only has read access and that I should use a personal access token. Then it's a different question. Should we allow a GitLab runner to generate temporary personal access token ?
Discussion ~runner ~"CI/CD"