From: Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:00:24 GMT
Subject: Re: git & ssh on F10 server
Message-ID: <637436EA5D5846208F8432D51B63D87D@HPLAPTOP>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0904171812330.8773@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>

> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Aaron Gray wrote:
>
>> Julian,
>>
>> Thanks for the response.
>
> Not a problem, but please keep the mailing list on the CC ...
>
>>>  On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Aaron Gray wrote:
>>>
>>> >  Hi,
>>> >
>>> >  we have a Fedora 10 server in SELinux enforcing mode setup running 
>>> > git-deamon and gitweb (with home grown SElinux policy).
>>> >
>>> >  Anyway now we find out you cannot do a 'push' over the basic git 
>>> > protocol, back to the server repository.
>>>
>>>  You can push over git://, but you get no authentication mechanism so 
>>> it's
>>>  disabled by default.  It's only really useful if you trust everyone who
>>>  has IP access to the server.
>>
>> How do go about I enabling it ?
>
> You have to enable the receive-pack service.  You can either enable it for 
> all repositories by using the --enable=<service> option to git-daemon, or 
> on a per-repository basis by setting daemon.receivepack to true in the 
> repositories that you want to enable push for.

Thanks, I'll make a note of that.

>>> >  So now am trying to get git to work over ssh. The repositories are 
>>> > located /pub/git/*/.git
>>> >
>>> >  Basic attempts using BerliOS'es instructions for client end failed.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > 
>>> > http://developer.berlios.de/docman/display_doc.php?docid=1812&group_id=2
>>> >
>>> >  Could someone please help us with this.
>>> >
>>> >  Aaron
>>>
>>>  You haven't said what commands you tried, nor what the errors you 
>>> received
>>>  were, so it's a bit hard to say what went wrong ...
>>>
>>
>> git push ssh://ang@git.site.org/pub/git/llvm/trunk milestone1
>> Pushing to ssh://ang@git.site.org/pub/git/llvm/trunk
>> fatal:  exec ssh failed.
>> fatal:  The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>
> Sounds like git didn't find ssh on your path.
> What version of git is this btw?

Yep. No ssh installed in Cygwin.

Thanks Julian, I am getting lax these days !

Aaron