gitosis asking for password

Hi List,

I've been trying to sort this out for a couple of days now, but have
gotten absolutely nowhere.

For some reason, a few days ago, gitosis just stopped liking me, and I
was unable to push or fetch from my gitosis server, getting the error
message 'fatal: x does not appear to be a git repo'.

So, I decided to remove gitosis and start again.  Following this [1]
guide, this is what I did/got:

$ 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.
The key fingerprint is:
bb:04:a6:f0:68:e8:4f:89:0b:60:6e:35:5b:29:50:58 tim@overlord.imperial.fleet

$ 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@localhost's password: 

But of course, it shouldn't be asking me for a password, and nothing I
type will work anyway, as it's a disabled password.

I've tried it a few times, completely purging the gitosis user and its
home directory, but with the same results.  Has anybody had similar
experiences?  Or does somebody know some magic trick to get gitosis
working?  Did I miss a step?


Tim


[1] http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way

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On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 01:42 +1000, Tim Guirgies wrote:

Hi List,

I've been trying to sort this out for a couple of days now, but have
gotten absolutely nowhere.

For some reason, a few days ago, gitosis just stopped liking me, and I
was unable to push or fetch from my gitosis server, getting the error
message 'fatal: x does not appear to be a git repo'.

So, I decided to remove gitosis and start again.  Following this [1]
guide, this is what I did/got:

<snip>

$ git clone gitosis@overlord.imperial.fleet:gitosis-admin
Cloning into gitosis-admin...
gitosis@localhost's password: 

But of course, it shouldn't be asking me for a password, and nothing I
type will work anyway, as it's a disabled password.

I've tried it a few times, completely purging the gitosis user and its
home directory, but with the same results.  Has anybody had similar
experiences?  Or does somebody know some magic trick to get gitosis
working?  Did I miss a step?

[1] http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way

Hi Tim,
You'll notice that the year on that is 2007. I seem to recall the lack
of support factor is [a large part of] why Sitaram Chamarty gave the
world Gitolite (https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite ). 
You may still be able to find some help with Gitosis, but I'd not risk
blacking out due to holding my breath too long if I were you.

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