Re: Doing a push to my user git repository

[Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>]

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Hi Michael,

On 11/06/2021 11:31, Michael Tremer wrote:
> 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
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. :-)
> 
>> 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. :-)
> 
>> 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.

Regards,
Adolf.
> 
> -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
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