users are asked for password while using gitolite
In your config file, I see:
User dilawar
That is wrong. ssh communication to a gitolite server are always done with the same account (here gitolite
).
What changes is the private key used, which will help gitolite determine your identity.
What you ~/.ssh/config
file should look like is:
Host admin
HostName 10.107.105.13
User gitolite
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/gitolite
Host dilawar
HostName 10.107.105.13
User gitolite
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
For cloning gitolite-admin
, you would use:
git clone admin:gitolite-admin
For cloning a repo dilawar
has access to:
git clone dilawar:aRepo
See more at "Gitolite: adding user not working, and DENIED by fallthru when cloning as root?".
See also "how gitolite uses ssh"
Adding your public key to the server's
~git/.ssh/authorized_keys
file is how ssh uses pubkeys to authenticate users.
Let's say[email protected]
is trying to log in asgit@server
.
What you have to do is take the~sita/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
file for usersita
on work-station and append its contents (remember it's only one line) to~git/.ssh/authorized_keys
for usergit
on server.The authorized_keys file can have multiple public keys (from many different people) added to it so any of them can log in to
git@server
.
I have got it working by cloning the repository using the gitolite username.
git clone gitolite@server:repo
If keys are added successfully then further pull and push will go smoothly.
I am accepting VomC answer as a better answer.