gitolite-admin clone issue
clone, git, gitolite, ubuntu
Solution
Using `morten` account is perfectly fine.
However, your installation is strange, considering your current `~morten/.ssh/authorized_keys` content:
Instead of `/home/morten/gitolite/src/gitolite-shell morten`|, you should have `/home/morten/gitolite/bin/gitolite-shell morten`
That means: `gitolite-shell` should be in your `$PATH`, and it should be in a bin directory, created after executing:
"${github}/install" -to "${gtl}/bin"
(See option 3 of the "actual install" section of "Installing Gitolite")
with:
- `github` the path where you have cloned `https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite`
- `gtl` the path where you want to install gitolite (in your case, for instance, `/home/morten/gitolite`)
Then, it is easier to save your `authorized_keys` and `.gitolite.rc` file, and re-do the initialization process:
gitolite setup -pk "${HOME}/.ssh/gitoliteadm.pub"
(provided you created your public and private key, naming it '`gitoliteadm`', with a simple:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -f "${H}/.ssh/morten" -C "Gitolite Admin access (not interactive)" -q -P ""
)
Note that I keep the 'ssh' account name (`morten`) different than the gitolite server account (`gitoliteadm`) on purpose.
You will still clone with `git clone morten@ubuntu-server:gitolite-admin` (because all ssh files are in `~morten/.ssh`), but you will do so with the private/public key of `gitoliteadm`, prompting gitolite to access its repo with a gitolite "account" named "`gitoliteadm`".
That way, if you change physical user account for your gitolite server, the "logical" account '`gitoliteadm`' (referring to a role, not to a person or resource).
Problem
I am going nuts with a problem cloning the gitolite-admin repository. I have followed this http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/install.html#migr and it went perfectly. I ran `ssh-keygen -t rsa` and `scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub morten@ubuntu-server:/tmp/morten.pub` authorized_keys on the server looks like this: ``` # gitolite start command="/home/morten/gitolite/src/gitolite-shell morten",no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forward$ # gitolite end ``` Which AFAIK is okay. When I run `git clone morten@ubuntu-server:gitolite-admin` on my client, I get ``` fatal: 'gitolite-admin' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly ``` I have no idea what I missed!