Re: gitosis asking for password

From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Jun 1, 2011, 18:24 UTC
Message-ID: <1306952658.19722.18.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20110531154218.GA4483@Imperial-SSD-Overlord>

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 01:42 +1000, Tim Guirgies wrote:

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> Hi List,
> 
> I've been trying to sort this out for a couple of days now, but have
> gotten absolutely nowhere.
> 
> For some reason, a few days ago, gitosis just stopped liking me, and I
> was unable to push or fetch from my gitosis server, getting the error
> message 'fatal: x does not appear to be a git repo'.
> 
> So, I decided to remove gitosis and start again.  Following this [1]
> guide, this is what I did/got:

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> $ git clone gitosis@overlord.imperial.fleet:gitosis-admin
> Cloning into gitosis-admin...
> gitosis@localhost's password: 
> 
> But of course, it shouldn't be asking me for a password, and nothing I
> type will work anyway, as it's a disabled password.
> 
> I've tried it a few times, completely purging the gitosis user and its
> home directory, but with the same results.  Has anybody had similar
> experiences?  Or does somebody know some magic trick to get gitosis
> working?  Did I miss a step?

> [1] http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way

Hi Tim, You'll notice that the year on that is 2007. I seem to recall the lack of support factor is [a large part of] why Sitaram Chamarty gave the world Gitolite (https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite ). You may still be able to find some help with Gitosis, but I'd not risk blacking out due to holding my breath too long if I were you.

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-Drew Northup
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