Re: Doing a push to my user git repository

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello,

> On 10 Jun 2021, at 18:38, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On 10/06/2021 14:41, Michael Tremer wrote:
>> Hello,
>>> On 10 Jun 2021, at 13:39, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hallo Michael,
>>> 
>>> On 10/06/2021 13:13, Michael Tremer wrote:
>>>> Hello Adolf,
>>>> We do not use SSH keys in our infrastructure. Instead we use Kerberos authentication.
>>>> For that, you do not have to do anything apart from authenticating using a password as usual. In the background the server will acquire a Kerberos ticket automatically.
>>>> You should be able to log in at people.ipfire.org using SSH with your username and your password. Can you check if that works?
>>> After adding a Match Host command to my ssh_config to allow password authentication I was able to login with ssh to people.ipfire.org. It immediately logged me out again with the following message:-
>>> 
>>> fatal: Interactive git shell is not enabled.
>>> hint: ~/git-shell-commands should exist and have read and execute access.
>>> Connection to people.ipfire.org closed.
>>> 
>>> Reading about this I suspect that is expected because I should not be working with git interactively but it proves that my ssh connection is working.
>> Yes, this is correct. This was just to test the SSH connection.
>>> I will now try out accessing my user repository via ssh and seeing if that works.
>> You should be able to push things to this repository by setting it up as a remote repository first:
>>   git remote add bonnietwin ssh://bonnietwin(a)people.ipfire.org/…
>> And then use pull and push :)
> Struggling to make this work. If I just use ssh://bonnietwin(a)people.ipfire.org/ as above then I get the following message when I try a push.
> 
> fatal: '/' does not appear to be a git repository
> fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

The full path is on the gitweb page here: https://git.ipfire.org/?p=people/bonnietwin/ipfire-2.x.git;a=summary

  ssh://bonnietwin(a)people.ipfire.org/pub/git/people/bonnietwin/ipfire-2.x.git

> I tried adding bonnietwin/ipfire-2.x.git/ to the end of the url but that gave the same error message.Basically just a guess on my part but it was wrong.
> Looking at my user repository in a browser the url is completely different so I have no idea what I need to use for the url for my repository when accessing it via ssh.
> 
> I suspect that I have made more than the allowed errors as I now can't even connect any more and get the following message:-
> 
> ssh: connect to host people.ipfire.org port 22: Network is unreachable
> fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

LOL. This shouldn’t happen if you authenticate properly. If this locks you out again send a note to Peter to have a look at this.

> Not sure if this will be accessible again after some time or if I am permanently blocked and need it to be released.

It is a temporary block and should be working again now.

> Either way I need and would appreciate some guidance.

If you need anything else, just let me know.

-Michael

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adolf.
>> -Michael
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the help.
>>> 
>>> Adolf.
>>>> -Michael
>>>>> On 10 Jun 2021, at 12:00, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sorry for my lack of activities over the last period but I had some non-computing issues to deal with.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Back again now and starting to look through some previous stuff.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The user git repository that I have available. Reading through the wiki it looks like I need to use ssh to access it and do a push of any local changes to my user repository.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have created an ssh key but the public file will need to be put into the git repository server. Do I just need to send the public key to this distribution list or is there some other process to get it added.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Adolf.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Sent from my laptop