From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 16:01:05 GMT
Subject: Re: gitosis asking for password
Message-ID: <vpqy61mrha6.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20110531154954.GB4483@Imperial-SSD-Overlord>

Tim Guirgies <lt.infiltrator@gmail.com> writes:

> So, I decided to remove gitosis and start again afresh.  Following this
> [1] guide, I did/got the following:

Gitosis is no longer maintained. You should probably be trying gitolite
instead.

> $ git clone gitosis@overlord.imperial.fleet:gitosis-admin
> Cloning into gitosis-admin...
> gitosis@overlord.imperial.fleet's password: 
> Permission denied, please try again.

If it asks for password, then it's probably a plain SSH problem. Try
reproducing it with e.g.

ssh gitosis@overlord.imperial.fleet

or

ssh -vvv gitosis@overlord.imperial.fleet

to see what's going on. Look at ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/