Question

I am having trouble running a simple command (which is part of a larger deploy process problem) on one sever from another.

user gitolite:

I can ssh using that user onto the box as it returns

X@repo2:~$ ssh gitolite@repo1
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
hello repo2, this is gitolite v2.1-19-g36dfb85 running on git 1.7.0.4
the gitolite config gives you the following access:
     R   W      proto_projectname_rails
    @R_ @W_     testing
Connection to repo1.x closed.

However when I try run git ls-remote ssh://gitolite@repo1.x:2011/proto_projectname_rails it prompts for a password.

my gitolite.conf has the lines

repo    proto_projectname_rails
    RW+     =   MBP
    RW+     =   repo2

and the public key is in my keydir with the same name e.g. repo2.pub.
I also ran

gl-setup repo2.pub 

which updated the authorised_keys to include repo2 in there.

I am all out of ideas as to what else I need to do. If i run the same command from my local machine. i.e from MBP it completes successfully.

Any ideas on this would be more than welcome.

Thank you.

Answer 1

If ssh gitolite@repo1 works, then that is the ssh address you must use for gitolite.
Gitolite itself will call git, and the ssh settings on the server might use internally gitolite@repo1.x:2011 for that git call.

But for the end-user, client of gitolite, git ls-remote ssh://gitolite@repo1/proto_projectname_rails will work.