Set up Gitosis but can't clone

Question

I installed Gitosis in a remote Ubuntu field, which I will call linuxserver as my host in the following commands. I also connect from a Windows window using Cygwin.

I followed the instructions as per: http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way

I had no problems until I needed to clone the gitosis-admin repository to my local machine

git clone git@linuxserver :gitosis-admin.git 

When I do this, the command is executed, but it hangs there, not displaying anything, until I return to the ctrl-c command line. Messages are not displayed at all.

I am sure that I have installed my ssh keys correctly, because logging in using "ssh linuxserver" in my regular account works fine without asking for a password.

Edit: On the weekend, I installed an almost identical Ubuntu box at home and had no problems setting up Gitosis. The only difference was that I was connecting from OSX instead of Cygwin.

Edit: I also found that when using the Bash shell provided with "Git Extensions" I have no problems, so the problem definitely seems to be a kind of Cygwin conflict.

Edit: Just an update, but a month after posting this question, I switched to Mercurial and found that I prefer it a lot more than git. Thanks for the suggestions, but I do not plan to return to git to try any of them.

Answer 1

I also recommend setting the debug option to conf.

 [gitosis] loglevel = DEBUG 

Answer 2

Have you checked /var/log/messages on your server?
Maybe the git username is not working properly: from the Gitosis comments ,

if you look at the authorized_key file, you will see that it did not import the name of the system on which the key was generated, but the name of the server field.

Example: using the username "git" led to this in an authorized key

 root@git-repo :/home/git/.ssh# cat authorized_keys command="gitosis-serve root@git-repo " 

After going to username "gitosis" it looks like

 root@git-repo :/home/gitosis/.ssh# cat authorized_keys command="gitosis-serve myuser@mylocalbox ", 

To fix, I created a gitosis user with home dir / home / gitosis and ran the git -init script again.

 sudo -H -u gitosis gitosis-init < /tmp/id_rsa.pub sudo chmod 755 /home/gitosis/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/hooks/post-update 

then on the local field.

 git clone gitosis@YOUR _SERVER_HOSTNAME:gitosis-admin.git 

Answer 3

I found these instructions, provided more explanation for what you do when you install gitos. May help someone.

Answer 4

I had the same problem as you and my solution to the problem was to add the user “git” to the allowed users in the ssh configuration file on the server. The main oversight is yes - but since I followed the same tutorial and this step is not mentioned, it can easily be that other people forgot to add the git user to the ssh configuration file.

Answer 5

I had a similar problem on my computer. I installed gitosis on Archlinux and it works on startup

 git clone ssh:// git@localhost /oslab.git 

But if I change localhost to IP, for example 192.168.1.1, it freezes.

Answer 6

If someone else had this problem and tried to connect from the Cygwin environment on a client who also installed Msys Git, check the value of the GIT_SSH environment variable. It must be uninstalled or equal to / usr / bin / ssh, not plink.exe

I managed ssh on the server as a Git user (with the expected abandonment of gitosis scripts), however I could not clone.

I realized that something strange happened because Git was still warning that the host was unknown and there was no direct ssh connection. This was confirmed when I looked at the output of strace

 strace git clone git@server :gitosis-admin.git | less 

A search for sting "ssh" showed that GIT_SSH pointed to plink.exe, the ssh hairpin client used by Msys Git. I do not know why plink.exe does not work, but installed GIT_SSH = / usr / bin / ssh fixed.