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git push asking for a password

Subject: git push asking for a password

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2 messages between Jul 26, 2010 and Jul 26, 2010.

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brennsuppa· Jul 26, 2010, 10:31 UTC · lore

Hi,

I'm working with git for the first time and when I started it I just had to commit/push/pull on an existing repository.

Now I should create a new repo, but this fails when I try to git push origin master:refs/heads/master because it is asking for a password, which should not happen since ssh-keys are in use, right?

my setup:

I have an existing repo called drums, this works fine! Now I tried to create a new one called guitars with this how to http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way

so my gitosis.conf is like this: [gitosis]

[group gitosis-admin] writable = gitosis-admin members = brennsuppa

[group drums] writable = drums members = brennsuppa dan

[group guitars] writable = guitars members = brennsuppa dan eug

my key should be working, otherwise I cannot explain why it works with drums, any help?

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Ilari Liusvaara· Jul 26, 2010, 18:30 UTC · re: brennsuppa · lore

Re: git push asking for a password

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 03:31:20AM -0700, brennsuppa wrote:

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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working with git for the first time and when I started it I just had to
> commit/push/pull on an existing repository.
> 
> Now I should create a new repo, but this fails when I try to git push origin
> master:refs/heads/master because it is asking for a password, which should
> not happen since ssh-keys are in use, right?

<Snip secition some repos working and some not>

The password prompts come from SSH, not git. And there only user and host specified in URL matter.

BTW: 'git push origin master:refs/heads/master' can be shortened as
'git push origin master' if 'master' is a branch (it usually is). This isn't
the problem however.

Few possible problems:

- The URL points to wrong host or host alias
- The username in URL is wrong
- You are trying access from different computer/user that doesn't have valid
keys for that system.

-Ilari