From ef7167fb7fa3f9cb70d994e7a8d41ab69a80824a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawl99Gxq3NPNvwZHp3PDufaknQH4rZb_KKY" Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 15:27:17 +0000 Subject: --- ...s_password_login___40__nearly__41___impossible.mdwn | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/bugs/The_restricted_ssh_key_pair_makes_password_login___40__nearly__41___impossible.mdwn (limited to 'doc/bugs/The_restricted_ssh_key_pair_makes_password_login___40__nearly__41___impossible.mdwn') diff --git a/doc/bugs/The_restricted_ssh_key_pair_makes_password_login___40__nearly__41___impossible.mdwn b/doc/bugs/The_restricted_ssh_key_pair_makes_password_login___40__nearly__41___impossible.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0c9a7973b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/The_restricted_ssh_key_pair_makes_password_login___40__nearly__41___impossible.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +What steps will reproduce the problem? +On my work computer I created a new repository and then added a directory on my home server to backup some of my files. The assistant created a new key pair which then made password login quite hard. +On the commandline I could still login via ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=keyboard-interactive ... but all gui tools (e.g. gigolo) stop after connecting to the restricted shell. +I don't want to allow full passwordless access to my server from this computer. + +What is the expected output? What do you see instead? +I was able to fix the problem by moving the keyfiles on my computer at work to a subdirectory. After that I added the following line to the [remote] block in .git/config : +IdentityFile = /home/user/.ssh/annex/id_rsa_annex + +I think it should be the default behaviour that git-annex uses its own key pair with restricted access. For portability the keys could be stored somewhere in the repository itself. + +What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? +git-annex version: 4.20130324 +Ubuntu 11.04 + +Please provide any additional information below. + + -- cgit v1.2.3