Re: git & ssh on F10 server

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Apr 17, 2009, 17:17 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0904171812330.8773@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <FD77671D77E2465097BD60A1E144BB91@HPLAPTOP>

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 ...

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>>  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.

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>> >  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?

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> A clone failed simularly
>
> I was expecting it to ask for a password. Should I try a DSA certificate ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron
>
>

-- 
Julian

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