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gitolite, on egit failes, on bash works, frustration lvl rising [message #880586]

Sat, 02 June 2012 07:04

Eclipse User

Hi EGIT community,

after hours and hours of configuring egit with gitolite I decided to give this forum a try. Hopefully someone can give me a pointer to what I am doing wrong. or a logfile I haven't seen. or a command. or anything... Confused

I am trying to setup eclipse with a private remote git repository (first gitosis by now gitolite--no difference really) Simple test situation: one repository, one user with public key auth, git over ssh.

On the commandline

git@host.com:repo.git

-> works

In Eclipse/EGIT

ssh://git@host.com/repo.git

-> exception ls-remote command (details see below)
(same result for writing the config directly into .git/config and starting via egit)

Additionally from this point onwards my IP is blocked from accessing the server (enty in /etc/hosts.deny).

I took a look into the /var/log/auth.log on the remote host (see below). It appears eclipse is failing the authentication.

However the public key resides in .ssh/id_rsa-repo which is precisely the location I configured in the Window->Preferences --> General->Network Connection->SSH2 menu. Additionally I even disabled all other forms of authentication, but to no avail.

I am running out of ideas here. Anybody?

Details:
Eclipse: 3.7.2
EGIT version: 1.3.0.201202151440-r
GIT: 1.7.2.5
Gitolite: v3.03-14-g7170ad9

Exception:
"Exception caught during execution of ls-remote command"

Logfile ssh connection
Starting the session and administering the repository

Jun  2 12:18:04 HOST sshd[9556]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Jun  2 12:18:04 HOST sshd[9556]: Server listening on :: port 22.
Jun  2 12:18:24 HOST sshd[9563]: Accepted publickey for git from MY-IP port 62586 ssh2
Jun  2 12:18:24 HOST sshd[9563]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user git by (uid=0)
Jun  2 12:18:25 HOST sshd[9565]: Received disconnect from MY-IP: 11: disconnected by user
Jun  2 12:18:25 HOST sshd[9563]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user git

accessing the repository from commandline

Jun  2 12:18:46 HOST sshd[9570]: Accepted publickey for git from MY-IP port 62587 ssh2
Jun  2 12:18:46 HOST sshd[9570]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user git by (uid=0)
Jun  2 12:18:47 HOST sshd[9572]: Received disconnect from MY-IP: 11: disconnected by user
Jun  2 12:18:47 HOST sshd[9570]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user git

Finally accessing the repository from git

Jun  2 12:19:23 HOST sshd[9582]: Failed password for git from MY-IP port 62588 ssh2
Jun  2 12:19:23 HOST last message repeated 4 times
Jun  2 12:19:24 HOST sshd[9584]: Failed password for git from MY-IP port 62589 ssh2
Jun  2 12:19:24 HOST last message repeated 4 times
Jun  2 12:19:25 HOST sshd[9586]: Failed password for git from MY-IP port 62590 ssh2
Jun  2 12:19:25 HOST last message repeated 4 times

A enty in /etc/hosts.deny follows immediately

Re: gitolite, on egit failes, on bash works, frustration lvl rising [message #882395 is a reply to message #880586]

Wed, 06 June 2012 07:41

Eclipse User

Tried the same for github. Same exception.

I am now 99% sure eclipse messes with my keys. Yet the configuration is absolutely right (points to ~/.ssh and includes the right private key)

Is there no way to get more control on how eclipse handles this?

Re: gitolite, on egit failes, on bash works, frustration lvl rising [message #885334 is a reply to message #880586]

Tue, 12 June 2012 16:38

Eclipse User

Having the very same issue. Although I've found that public repos like "git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git" seem to work fine. Subscribing to this thread in case a solution is posted...

Re: gitolite, on egit failes, on bash works, frustration lvl rising [message #886711 is a reply to message #885334]

Fri, 15 June 2012 10:05

Eclipse User

I notice that the keypair you are using is called ~/.ssh/id_rsa-repo(.pub) rather than the default .ssh/id_rsa(.pub). How do you tell Eclipse to use the non-standard name?

Try telling ssh itself which key you use, by adding an entry like this in ~/.ssh/config (create the file if none exists)

Host github github.com www.github.com
    User git
    HostName github.com
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-github

Actually, can you post the results of cloning from the command line - I gather that it's successful, but i would like to see exactly what command you entered. Post your ~/.ssh/config if you have one.

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