Re: Setting up Git Server over SSH

["Dennis" <dennisfm@friendlymatch.com>]

Thanks, that worked

I used OpenSSH instead of Putty
and that fixed things up.

Dennis


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shawn Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: "Dennis" <dennisfm@friendlymatch.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: Setting up Git Server over SSH


> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Dennis <dennisfm@friendlymatch.com> 
> wrote:
>> I am doing this, but it fails:
>>
>>> git clone ssh://hostname.com:/home/user/.git
>>
>> Cloning into user...
>> fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: logi
>
> This looks to me like your server is echoing back text upon login.
> That text is being confused for Git protocol data by the Git client,
> but its not as expected, so it aborts with an error message.
>
> Try getting the simple case to work first:
>
>  ssh hostname.com echo hello
>
> This should *only* print "hello".  If it prints anything else (and
> right now I suspect it prints "login ..."), that will confuse Git.
> You need to adjust your server's shell login scripts to stop echoing
> information during a non-interactive shell.  Or you may need to adjust
> your SSH client to ensure the authentication proceeds smoothly.  Those
> "Access denied" errors look like you aren't actually authenticating to
> the server.
>
> -- 
> Shawn.