Setting up Git Server over SSH

I have a remote server (hostname.com) that acts as a webserver. What I did is I wanted to set up my public_html folder as a public repository. After trial and error I am still at stage_0.

Thus, on that server I have /home/user/.git directory and the repo works fine if I am accessing it from the server.

Now, I want to clone that repo onto my local machine. I am doing this, but it fails:

Cloning into user... fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: logi

Access denied Access denied Access denied Access denied Access denied FATAL ERROR: Server sent disconnect message type 2 (protocol error): "Too many authentication failures for " --------------------------------

What can I do to make it work? Dennis

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Dennis <dennisfm@friendlymatch.com> wrote:

This looks to me like your server is echoing back text upon login. That text is being confused for Git protocol data by the Git client, but its not as expected, so it aborts with an error message.

Try getting the simple case to work first:

  ssh hostname.com echo hello

This should *only* print "hello". If it prints anything else (and right now I suspect it prints "login ..."), that will confuse Git. You need to adjust your server's shell login scripts to stop echoing information during a non-interactive shell. Or you may need to adjust your SSH client to ensure the authentication proceeds smoothly. Those "Access denied" errors look like you aren't actually authenticating to the server.

Thanks, that worked

I used OpenSSH instead of Putty and that fixed things up.

Dennis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shawn Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: "Dennis" <dennisfm@friendlymatch.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: Setting up Git Server over SSH

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 20:14, Dennis <dennisfm@friendlymatch.com> wrote:

Does using Putty with this at the top of your .bashrc fix it too:

    if [[ $- != *i* ]] ; then
        # Shell is non-interactive.  Be done now!
        return
    fi

?

I reinstalled git package with putty and it worked okay this time. It did print this line though before normal output: stdin: is not a tty remote: Counting objects: 1194, done. ...

I tweaked bash setting and it did not seem to do anything. But then I am on Windows XP, so not sure if it will work the same way or if I edited the right file.

Dennis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: "Dennis" <dennisfm@friendlymatch.com>
Cc: "Shawn Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>; <git@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 5:46 AM
Subject: Re: Setting up Git Server over SSH