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Gitosis requires password even though the public key is given

Asked 2009-05-25T14:45:58.653
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I'm confronted with some problems when trying to configure gitosis on my Archlinux

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Setting_Up_Git_ACL_Using_gitosis

I referred to this wiki article and successfully installed gitosis.

$ sudo pacman -U gitosis-git-20090525-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
$ sudo -H -u gitosis gitosis-init < /tmp/id_rsa.pub

And modified /srv/gitosis/.ssh/authorized_keys to include my local user's id_rsa.pub.

But when I run git clone as the local user,

$ git clone gitosis@host:gitosis-admin.git

It says

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/wyx/gitosis-admin/.git/
gitosis@10.132.140.73's password: *****
fatal: 'gitosis-admin.git' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

So the git clone operation failed. I'm wondering why it tries to initialize an empty git repository in my local user's directory (/home/wyx)? And since I've already added local user's id_rsa.pub in .ssh/authorized_keys, why does it still ask for password?

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Having moved to a new Ubuntu machine and run into this question myself, I saw a couple answers on here that got me moving in the right direction, namely using an absolute path to the .git files for each repository.

Experimenting a bit I noticed paths relative to the git user's home directory also worked, which shortened something like:

git@host:/var/git/repositories/project.git

down to

git@host:repositories/project.git

Playing a bit more I tried moving the project files from repositories right into git's home directory; now only the project is required:

git@host:project.git

It's a bit hacky, but I doubt will cause any harm. Would be good to know what changed, as I was hosting gitosis on another Ubuntu (older) and was able to have the projects inside the repositories directory with the last notation from above.

answered 2012-06-24T22:13:24.467

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