# gitosis asking for password 3 messages from 2011-05-31 to 2011-06-01. Participants: Tim Guirgies, Matthieu Moy. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/27509 ## Tim Guirgies, 2011-05-31 15:49 Subject: gitosis asking for password Message-ID: <20110531154954.GB4483@Imperial-SSD-Overlord> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20110531154954.GB4483%40Imperial-SSD-Overlord ``` Hi List, I've been at this for a few days now, to no avail. It all began when gitosis stopped liking me, and whenever I tried to fetch from or push to my gitosis server, it gave me a 'fatal: x does not appear to be a git repo' error. So, I decided to remove gitosis and start again afresh. Following this [1] guide, I did/got the following: $ sudo adduser --system --shell /bin/sh --gecos 'git version control' --group --disabled-password --home /home/gitosis gitosis Adding system user `gitosis' (UID 119) ... Adding new group `gitosis' (GID 128) ... Adding new user `gitosis' (UID 119) with group `gitosis' ... Creating home directory `/home/gitosis' ... $ ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/tim/.ssh/id_rsa): Created directory '/home/tim/.ssh'. Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /home/tim/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /home/tim/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. ... $ sudo -H -u gitosis gitosis-init < /home/tim/.ssh/id_rsa.pub Initialized empty Git repository in /home/gitosis/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/ Reinitialized existing Git repository in /home/gitosis/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/ $ git clone gitosis@overlord.imperial.fleet:gitosis-admin Cloning into gitosis-admin... gitosis@overlord.imperial.fleet's password: Permission denied, please try again. Of course, it's not meant to ask me for a password, and no matter what I type, it won't work anyway, as it's disabled. So, did I miss something? Does anybody know some gitosis magic? Tim [1] http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2011-05-31 16:01 Subject: Re: gitosis asking for password Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpqy61mrha6.fsf%40bauges.imag.fr In-Reply-To: <20110531154954.GB4483@Imperial-SSD-Overlord> ``` Tim Guirgies 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/ ``` ## Tim Guirgies, 2011-06-01 02:23 Subject: Re: gitosis asking for password Message-ID: <20110601022313.GA3025@Imperial-SD-Longsword> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20110601022313.GA3025%40Imperial-SD-Longsword In-Reply-To: ``` On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 06:01:05PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Gitosis is no longer maintained. You should probably be trying gitolite > instead. Ah; well, I guess now's as good a time as any to migrate to gitolite then. I set up gitosis a few years ago and it hadn't been giving me any problems. > If it asks for password, then it's probably a plain SSH problem. Try > reproducing it with e.g. ... > ssh -vvv gitosis@overlord.imperial.fleet I did this just to see, and this is quite interesting: debug3: Not a RSA1 key file /home/tim/.ssh/id_rsa. debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----BEGIN' debug3: key_read: missing keytype debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type 'Proc-Type:' debug3: key_read: missing keytype debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type 'DEK-Info:' debug3: key_read: missing keytype debug3: key_read: missing whitespace (x~20) debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----END' debug3: key_read: missing keytype debug1: identity file /home/tim/.ssh/id_rsa type 1 ... debug2: key: /home/tim/.ssh/id_rsa (0x7f7c8f0f7020) debug2: key: /home/tim/.ssh/id_dsa ((nil)) debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey,password debug3: preferred gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,publickey,keyboard-interactive,password debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering public key: /home/tim/.ssh/id_rsa debug3: send_pubkey_test debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password debug1: Trying private key: /home/tim/.ssh/id_dsa debug3: no such identity: /home/tim/.ssh/id_dsa debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method ... That is very odd, as I didn't change anything after ssh-keygen and gitosis-init. I suppose it's irrelevant anyway, as I'll be switching to gitolite. Thanks for the advice, and sorry about the noise. Tim -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments ```