Hello, > On 11 Jun 2021, at 11:11, Adolf Belka wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > On 11/06/2021 11:31, Michael Tremer wrote: >> Hello, >>> On 10 Jun 2021, at 18:38, Adolf Belka wrote: >>> >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> On 10/06/2021 14:41, Michael Tremer wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>>> On 10 Jun 2021, at 13:39, Adolf Belka 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 > That seems so obvious today when you show it but I failed to see it yesterday. > Anyway it has worked for me today and I have done my first successful push to my repository. > Thanks very much. :-) Yay \o/ >>> 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. > I suspect Fail2Ban just looks at the frequency of attempts whether they are authenticated or not. > Shouldn't be a problem in the future because I won't be trying multiple different paths over a short time period. :-) Yes, but it seems to count unsupported authentication methods as a failed attempt. But hey, at least it works for now... >>> 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. > Thanks very much for the help. That has got me going and hopefully I should be able to figure most things out that I will need. :) -Michael > > Regards, > Adolf. >> -Michael >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Adolf. >>>> -Michael >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for the help. >>>>> >>>>> Adolf. >>>>>> -Michael >>>>>>> On 10 Jun 2021, at 12:00, Adolf Belka 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