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This PR adds opt-in support for path-scoped registry credentials through FF_KANIKO_PATH_SCOPED_REGISTRY_AUTH=true.

kaniko can currently resolve credentials configured for an exact repository or for the registry host, but it cannot resolve an intermediate namespace. For example:

{
  "auths": {
    "registry.example.com/org-a": {
      "auth": "..."
    },
    "registry.example.com/org-b": {
      "auth": "..."
    }
  }
}

When accessing registry.example.com/org-a/project/image, the credential for registry.example.com/org-a is currently not selected.

This matters for shared registries where namespaces are also security boundaries. A concrete example is Quay, where robot accounts are limited to a user namespace or organization. A CI job may legitimately need separate least-privilege credentials for quay.io/org-a/... and quay.io/org-b/... while both repositories share the same registry host.

This has personally been a recurring pain point for me for more than five years. I have worked around it with authentication proxies and registry mappings, but those are infrastructure workarounds for what is fundamentally a credential-selection problem, and I suspect this use case is not unique.

When enabled, the new lookup follows the repository hierarchy from most specific to least specific:

registry.example.com/org-a/project/image
registry.example.com/org-a/project
registry.example.com/org-a
registry.example.com

The implementation:

  • adds a repository-aware keychain for inline auths entries from config.json and DOCKER_AUTH_CONFIG;
  • uses whole path segments, so registry/org cannot accidentally match registry/org-admin;
  • keeps credHelpers and credsStore registry-scoped and never passes repository paths to external helpers;
  • updates the push path to resolve credentials using the repository context when the feature is enabled; pull already uses a repository-aware keychain;
  • selects credentials locally before the request and does not retry failed authentication with progressively broader credentials;
  • disables cross-repository blob mounting while path-scoped auth is enabled, because a mount may require source and destination scopes that belong to different credentials;
  • preserves the existing behavior completely when the feature flag is disabled.

The behavior is intentionally similar to the hierarchical auth-file lookup used by containers/image, where Podman/Buildah/Skopeo can distinguish multiple credentials on the same registry by repository path while external credential helpers remain registry-scoped.

There is also some relevant history here:

That solved exact per-repository credentials, but intermediate namespace entries are still skipped. This PR fills that remaining gap without changing the default behavior.

The integration test uses a local reverse proxy in front of one registry and requires different credentials for separate repository namespaces. It verifies:

  • legacy behavior with the feature disabled;
  • different credentials for sibling namespaces;
  • most-specific child credentials overriding a parent namespace;
  • authenticated push to multiple namespaces;
  • authenticated pull using a namespace credential.

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Release Notes

- Add opt-in path-scoped registry authentication via `FF_KANIKO_PATH_SCOPED_REGISTRY_AUTH`, allowing separate inline credentials for namespaces on the same registry host.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added opt-in path-scoped registry authentication using FF_KANIKO_PATH_SCOPED_REGISTRY_AUTH=true.
    • Credentials are selected from the most specific matching repository path, with segment-aware matching.
    • Registry credential helpers remain host-scoped, while inline credentials support repository paths.
    • Pushes and pulls use repository-aware authentication, with anonymous fallback when no credentials match.
    • Cross-repository layer mounting is disabled in this mode; layers are uploaded instead.
  • Documentation

    • Added configuration guidance, examples, limitations, and default-disabled behavior.

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Walkthrough

Adds an opt-in feature flag for repository-path registry authentication. It introduces hierarchical inline credential lookup, host-only credential helpers, repository-aware push checks, disabled cross-repository mounts, and integration coverage for push and pull flows.

Changes

Path-scoped registry authentication

Layer / File(s) Summary
Feature flag and authentication contract
pkg/config/featureflags.go, README.md, docs/registries.md
Adds FF_KANIKO_PATH_SCOPED_REGISTRY_AUTH, documents hierarchical repository matching, and defines credential-source behavior.
Path-scoped keychain resolution
pkg/creds/pathscoped.go, pkg/creds/creds.go
Adds PathScopedKeychain, Docker and Podman auth-file discovery, segment-aware lookup, host credential-helper handling, and feature-flag wiring.
Repository-aware push and mount behavior
pkg/executor/push.go, pkg/executor/push_scoped_check.go, pkg/executor/build.go
Resolves push credentials against full repositories, validates and cancels upload probes, blocks unsafe upload locations, and disables cross-repository mounts.
Authentication integration coverage
integration/integration_test.go, integration/testdata/credhelper/main.go
Tests namespace precedence, segment matching, credential helpers, base-image pulls, pushes, and DOCKER_AUTH_CONFIG credentials.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bda87

With path-scoped authentication enabled, valid namespace credentials may be skipped when a global credential store is configured, causing otherwise authorized pulls or pushes to fail. Push permission checks can also reject successful upload initiation and leave abandoned sessions, so the PR is not merge-ready until these bounded correctness issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Kaniko as Kaniko executor
  participant Keychain as PathScopedKeychain
  participant Registry as Container registry
  participant Helper as Credential helper
  Kaniko->>Keychain: Resolve full repository credentials
  Keychain->>Helper: Resolve bare-host credentials when needed
  Helper-->>Keychain: Return host credentials
  Keychain-->>Kaniko: Return repository authenticator
  Kaniko->>Registry: Initiate scoped blob upload
  Registry-->>Kaniko: Return upload location
  Kaniko->>Registry: Push image layers without cross-repository mount
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scripts/integration-test.sh (1)

46-47: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Bind the proxy to loopback.

-p 5002:5002 publishes the proxy on all host interfaces. The proxy fronts the unauthenticated local registry, and its catch-all /v2/ location requires no credential. Any host on the network can then read and write the test registry while the suite runs. The neighboring start_local_tls_registry already binds a specific address.

The test uses --net=host with localhost:5002, so loopback binding is sufficient.

🔒 Proposed change
-      -p 5002:5002 \
+      -p 127.0.0.1:5002:5002 \
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@scripts/integration-test.sh` around lines 46 - 47, Update the docker run port
mapping for the kaniko-path-scoped-auth-proxy to bind host port 5002 explicitly
to loopback, preserving container port 5002 and compatibility with the existing
--net=host localhost:5002 usage. Follow the address-binding pattern used by
start_local_tls_registry.
pkg/executor/push.go (1)

232-244: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Bound the best-effort upload cancel.

cancelScopedUpload runs in an unwaited goroutine with no context and no deadline. Two consequences follow. First, CheckPushPermissions returns immediately, so the goroutine may never execute and the initiated upload stays open on the registry. Second, if it does execute, the request can block for the process lifetime.

Run the cancel synchronously with a short timeout.

♻️ Proposed refactor
 		if loc != "" {
-			go cancelScopedUpload(client, loc)
+			cancelScopedUpload(client, loc)
 		}
 func cancelScopedUpload(client *http.Client, loc string) {
-	req, err := http.NewRequest(http.MethodDelete, loc, nil) //nolint:noctx
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 10*time.Second)
+	defer cancel()
+	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodDelete, loc, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		return
 	}
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@pkg/executor/push.go` around lines 232 - 244, Update cancelScopedUpload to
execute synchronously instead of from an unwaited goroutine, and create the
DELETE request with a short-lived context timeout so the best-effort
cancellation cannot block indefinitely. Preserve its existing silent-return
behavior for request creation and client errors, and ensure the response body is
still closed.
integration/integration_test.go (1)

1659-1664: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Negative subtests accept any error. Both flag-disabled subtests assert only that err != nil. A stopped proxy, a missing executor image, a renamed feature flag, or a Dockerfile path mistake all satisfy that assertion, so neither subtest proves that credential lookup fell back to host-only scope. Assert on the authentication failure text in out.

  • integration/integration_test.go#L1659-L1664: after confirming err != nil, require out to contain the registry authentication error for the push.
  • integration/integration_test.go#L1674-L1683: apply the same out check for the pull.
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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@integration/integration_test.go` around lines 1659 - 1664, Strengthen both
negative integration subtests in integration/integration_test.go:1659-1664 and
integration/integration_test.go:1674-1683 by retaining the existing err != nil
assertion and additionally requiring out to contain the expected registry
authentication failure text for the push and pull, respectively. This ensures
the failures specifically verify host-only credential lookup rather than
unrelated setup errors.
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@docs/registries.md`:
- Around line 65-67: Update the opt-in flag documentation in the registries
section to state the legacy lookup behavior directly when the flag is unset or
false, rather than referring ambiguously to “as described above.” Preserve the
documented behavior of matching only the exact reference or bare registry host.

In `@pkg/creds/pathscoped.go`:
- Around line 54-68: Update Resolve so dockerAuthConfigEnv is called before the
cf == nil early return, allowing DOCKER_AUTH_CONFIG to authenticate when no
config file exists. Preserve the existing malformed-environment fallback and
return authn.Anonymous only when neither the loaded config nor parsed
environment auths provide credentials.

In `@pkg/executor/push.go`:
- Around line 190-198: Update checkPushPermissionScoped around the
StatusAccepted handling so an error from scopedUploadLocation, specifically a
missing Location header, does not propagate after the registry returns 202.
Treat an absent location as no cleanup target, while still launching
cancelScopedUpload when a valid location is available and preserving other
permission-check behavior.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@integration/integration_test.go`:
- Around line 1659-1664: Strengthen both negative integration subtests in
integration/integration_test.go:1659-1664 and
integration/integration_test.go:1674-1683 by retaining the existing err != nil
assertion and additionally requiring out to contain the expected registry
authentication failure text for the push and pull, respectively. This ensures
the failures specifically verify host-only credential lookup rather than
unrelated setup errors.

In `@pkg/executor/push.go`:
- Around line 232-244: Update cancelScopedUpload to execute synchronously
instead of from an unwaited goroutine, and create the DELETE request with a
short-lived context timeout so the best-effort cancellation cannot block
indefinitely. Preserve its existing silent-return behavior for request creation
and client errors, and ensure the response body is still closed.

In `@scripts/integration-test.sh`:
- Around line 46-47: Update the docker run port mapping for the
kaniko-path-scoped-auth-proxy to bind host port 5002 explicitly to loopback,
preserving container port 5002 and compatibility with the existing --net=host
localhost:5002 usage. Follow the address-binding pattern used by
start_local_tls_registry.
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  • README.md
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  • integration/integration_test.go
  • pkg/config/featureflags.go
  • pkg/creds/creds.go
  • pkg/creds/pathscoped.go
  • pkg/executor/build.go
  • pkg/executor/push.go
  • scripts/integration-test.sh
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Comment on lines +190 to +198
if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusAccepted {
loc, err := scopedUploadLocation(resp)
if err != nil {
return err
}
if loc != "" {
go cancelScopedUpload(client, loc)
}
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not fail the permission check when Location is absent.

scopedUploadLocation returns an error when the Location header is missing. checkPushPermissionScoped propagates that error, so CheckPushPermissions fails the build even though the registry already accepted the upload with 202. The registry granted push permission at that point. The missing header only blocks the best-effort cleanup.

Treat the missing header as "nothing to cancel".

🐛 Proposed fix
 	if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusAccepted {
 		loc, err := scopedUploadLocation(resp)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		if loc != "" {
+		if err != nil {
+			logrus.Debugf("skipping upload cancel for %v: %v", repo, err)
+		} else if loc != "" {
 			go cancelScopedUpload(client, loc)
 		}
 	}
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if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusAccepted {
loc, err := scopedUploadLocation(resp)
if err != nil {
return err
}
if loc != "" {
go cancelScopedUpload(client, loc)
}
}
if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusAccepted {
loc, err := scopedUploadLocation(resp)
if err != nil {
logrus.Debugf("skipping upload cancel for %v: %v", repo, err)
} else if loc != "" {
go cancelScopedUpload(client, loc)
}
}
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In `@pkg/executor/push.go` around lines 190 - 198, Update
checkPushPermissionScoped around the StatusAccepted handling so an error from
scopedUploadLocation, specifically a missing Location header, does not propagate
after the registry returns 202. Treat an absent location as no cleanup target,
while still launching cancelScopedUpload when a valid location is available and
preserving other permission-check behavior.

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are you aware of the env-credential helper. I think it pretty much solves your problem, no?
not as a replacement to this feature here, but maybe to unblock you?

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meh, still undocumented .... I promised that a while ago

https://github.com/osscontainertools/kaniko/blob/main/pkg/creds/env_keychain.go#L42

no, it won't, it only works on hostname, not on path.

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pkg/executor/push.go (3)

147-203: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Reject redirects before issuing the redirected request.

client follows 301, 302, 303, 307, and 308 responses because CheckRedirect is unset. scopedUploadLocation sees only the final response, so the POST can reach a loopback or link-local target first. cancelScopedUpload can follow unsafe DELETE redirects through the same client. Set CheckRedirect to reject redirects, or validate every target's scheme, host, and port. Add POST and DELETE redirect tests.

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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@pkg/executor/push.go` around lines 147 - 203, Configure the HTTP client
created in checkPushPermissionScoped with a CheckRedirect policy that rejects
redirects before any redirected request is issued, covering both the initial
POST and cancelScopedUpload’s DELETE. Add tests verifying POST and DELETE
redirects are rejected without contacting the redirected target.

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147-203: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Bound the permission probe.

MakeTransport sets no lower-level deadlines, and transport.NewRetry adds no timeout. A stalled registry can therefore block the authentication handshake or POST indefinitely. Use one bounded context for transport.NewWithContext and the POST request, and add a stalled-server test.

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@pkg/executor/push.go` around lines 147 - 203, Bound checkPushPermissionScoped
with a single timeout context used by both transport.NewWithContext and
http.NewRequestWithContext, ensuring authentication and the upload-initiation
POST cannot hang indefinitely. Use the project’s established timeout
configuration or constant, and add a test covering a stalled registry response.

Source: MCP tools


135-145: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not retry the upload-initiation POST.

newRetry(rt) can replay this bodyless POST after a transient or reused-connection failure. If the registry creates the upload before the response is lost, cancelScopedUpload deletes only the final Location; earlier uploads remain active. Use a non-retrying transport for this probe or exclude POST from retries. Add a test for an accepted POST with a dropped response.

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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@pkg/executor/push.go` around lines 135 - 145, Update the upload-initiation
probe used by checkRemotePushPermission and checkPushPermissionScoped so its
bodyless POST cannot be replayed: use a non-retrying transport or exclude POST
from newRetry(rt). Add a test covering an accepted POST whose response is
dropped, verifying only one upload is created and no orphaned upload remains.

Source: MCP tools

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/registries.md`:
- Line 180: Update the inline command in the registries documentation by
removing the literal “shell” prefix so “kubectl” is the first executable token;
preserve the command arguments unchanged.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@pkg/executor/push.go`:
- Around line 147-203: Configure the HTTP client created in
checkPushPermissionScoped with a CheckRedirect policy that rejects redirects
before any redirected request is issued, covering both the initial POST and
cancelScopedUpload’s DELETE. Add tests verifying POST and DELETE redirects are
rejected without contacting the redirected target.
- Around line 147-203: Bound checkPushPermissionScoped with a single timeout
context used by both transport.NewWithContext and http.NewRequestWithContext,
ensuring authentication and the upload-initiation POST cannot hang indefinitely.
Use the project’s established timeout configuration or constant, and add a test
covering a stalled registry response.
- Around line 135-145: Update the upload-initiation probe used by
checkRemotePushPermission and checkPushPermissionScoped so its bodyless POST
cannot be replayed: use a non-retrying transport or exclude POST from
newRetry(rt). Add a test covering an accepted POST whose response is dropped,
verifying only one upload is created and no orphaned upload remains.
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Comment thread docs/registries.md Outdated
so that credentials can be accessed within the cluster. To create the
secret, run:
`shell kubectl create secret generic aws-secret --from-file=<path to .aws/credentials> `
`shell kubectl create secret generic aws-secret --from-file=<path to .aws/credentials>`

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the literal shell prefix from the command.

Copying the inline command attempts to execute shell instead of kubectl. Keep kubectl as the first token or use a fenced shell code block.

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+      `kubectl create secret generic aws-secret --from-file=<path to .aws/credentials>`
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`shell kubectl create secret generic aws-secret --from-file=<path to .aws/credentials>`
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In `@docs/registries.md` at line 180, Update the inline command in the registries
documentation by removing the literal “shell” prefix so “kubectl” is the first
executable token; preserve the command arguments unchanged.

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@mzihlmann, acknowledged. This finding is valid: shell is a literal command token in the inline command, so copying it attempts to run shell instead of kubectl.

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Comment thread README.md
#### Flag `FF_KANIKO_CROSS_REPO_MOUNT`

A registry can copy a blob between its own repositories for free, but only if it is told which repository already holds it. Kaniko loses that as soon as it copies a layer locally. Worse, with `--cache` every built layer goes up twice, once to the cache repo and once inside the image. Set this flag to `true` to remember which layers can be mounted remotely and which ones genuinely need to be pushed.
Cross-repository mounts are disabled when `FF_KANIKO_PATH_SCOPED_REGISTRY_AUTH=true`, because the selected destination credential may not have pull access to the source repository.

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is this caution or an observed incompatibility?

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It is more than just a precaution, but I should qualify "observed": I found the incompatibility in the go-containerregistry mount/auth flow rather than from broad registry-specific testing.

For a cross-repository mount, ggcr extends the destination authorization with a pull scope for the source repository and refreshes the token using the credential already selected for the destination. With path-scoped auth, source and destination may intentionally resolve to different credentials, so that refresh can fail before the normal no-mount fallback is reached.

I disabled the optimization intentionally because FF_KANIKO_CROSS_REPO_MOUNT is currently opt-in as well. Correctly supporting both flags together would require more than a small guard: we would need to resolve both principals, decide whether a mount is safe for that pair, and fall back to a regular upload without changing auth semantics.

I felt that was better handled separately rather than expanding this PR substantially.

That said, I realize this interaction matters once either feature graduates to the default behavior. My preference would be to keep the conservative behavior in this PR and track compatibility with cross-repo mounts separately, but I'm happy to adjust if you'd prefer that compatibility to be part of this change.

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I put together a small draft on top of this branch to show what proper compatibility with FF_KANIKO_CROSS_REPO_MOUNT could look like: WoozyMasta#1

It's still a work in progress rather than a final implementation, but it should make the intended approach and trade-offs concrete.

Instead of disabling cross-repo mounts globally, it preflights the exact combined authorization scopes that ggcr would request for the mount using the destination authenticator. If that authorization is available, the mount optimization is kept; otherwise kaniko falls back to the normal blob upload path before remote.Write.

I intentionally kept this out of the main PR for now to avoid expanding its scope before we agree on the direction.

If the approach looks reasonable, I can fold it into this PR or keep it as a separate follow-up, whichever you prefer.

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Looked at the draft. It is right, but it is not actually compatibility work for this PR. Both halves are already broken on main.

We use repository scope for pull only, for push we use registry scope, so that is inconsistent already and which is why so far we haven't noticed the issue yet, it covers it up nicely. Your change just happens to fix this as part of the feature implementation, uncovering the bug in the process.

Already now it is possible to mount across repositories and therefore across credentials, path-scoping is not required for that, you can just place two explicit full repository paths. That is already broken on main and interestingly enough will give you non-deterministic errors 🤯

My suggestion is therefore to land those two fixes first as separate PRs, that are only incidentally related to path-scoping, thereafter your PR can slide in without issues.

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I like the preflight check, it can proof that mount is broken a-priori, but unfortunately we can and never will be able to proof that mount will work. It could be that the registry gives us fewer scopes than requested or that an image was deleted in the interim, both would cause mount to fail regardless. So, the proper fix is a retry with push. That doesn't mean that we don't take your a-priori check, it then just turns into an optimization, rather than a bugfix.

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pkg/creds/pathscoped.go 0.00% 101 Missing ⚠️
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note that coverage is integration tests only and for us it's a control metric. so no need to worry about it. I will spend some time today to understand your tests and make them work in CI, let's see.

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honest answer, on 1-10, how annoying would it be if this change doesn't make the cut for this release and lands in the next one in 2 weeks?

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Honestly, 2/10. I've been working around this for many years, so another two weeks is basically a rounding error :)
I finally found the time and motivation to implement it myself, so waiting one more release is not a problem.

I'd rather first settle the cross-repo mount interaction from the draft above before merging this.

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thank you

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Your comment on checkPushPermissionScoped is right, and the upstream side of it is a bug worth fixing rather than routing around. remote.CheckPushPermission resolves the credential against ref.Context().Registry, while remote.Write and the fetcher both resolve against ref.Context(). Filed it upstream with the find credited to you: google/go-containerregistry#2410

It reproduces with a stock DefaultKeychain and a plain config.json, no path-scoped auth involved, so it stands on its own regardless of what happens to this PR.

If it lands we can drop checkPushPermissionScoped, scopedUploadLocation and cancelScopedUpload and call remote.CheckPushPermission directly again. That also gets rid of the hand-copy of writer.nextLocation, which is unexported upstream, so our copy of its SSRF guard will drift the next time it is tightened.

Nothing to change here in the meantime. Reimplementing it locally is the right call as long as upstream picks the wrong credential.

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mzihlmann force-pushed the feat/path-scoped-auth branch from bda8728 to 573cc95 Compare August 16, 2026 19:39
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