Re: gitosis asking for password

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.

-- 
-Drew Northup
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