Error when using Git credential helper with gnome-keyring as Sudo
I was looking for a way to store credentials securely while connecting to our Git server which uses SSL. I came across this suggestion by @james-ward (only edit I made was I updated our "system" config instead of our "global" config for Git ( https://stackoverflow.com/a/14528360/6195194 ) sudo apt-get install libgnome-keyring-dev cd /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/gnome-keyring sudo make git config --system credential.helper /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/gnome-keyring/git-credential-gnome-keyring I then can run git clone https://ipaddress/git/repo.git and the credential helper